When the unsinkable Titanic struck an iceberg and sank, one reporter wrote, "The tragedy of man is that he cannot build a boat to match his boasts." In many ways we have been able to conquer the sea. When it loomed up as a barrier to our progress across the earth we built boats to sail on it, created atomic submarines to travel through it, and designed jets to fly over it. What’s more, we can even swim in it. But we cannot become master of it.

The story which forms the miracle we consider now is about a man who did master the sea - in fact he walked on it. And that defies all that we have learned or experienced concerning the sea.

The nature miracles we have so far considered have suggested several possibilities for logical explanations. For the timid or the logically minded, speculation…