 is that while Jesus sees them straining and he approaches, the word says, and the New Living Translation says it like this, that he intended to go past them. Hmm. Did you catch that? He didn't walk out on the water to get in the boat with them because he needed a ride. And he didn't walk out to them to get in the boat because they needed him to be in the boat to accomplish what he had asked them to do. There was another reason. Why? Why?