Do you care more about your pigs or Jesus?
Jesus and the miraculous catch of fish, in the Sea of Galilee, by Raphael (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Matthew 8:28–34 “Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus , and when theysaw him, they begged him to leave their region” (v. 34). Most, if not all, of the disciples have thus far not been privy to much of God ’s great revelation about Jesus. They were not there when Joseph was told that his adopted Son would be of the Holy Spirit (Matt. 1:18–25). Likewise, they were probably not present at His baptism, the occasion on which the Father declared Jesus His “beloved Son” (3:13–17). Having been absent when these things happened, it is understandable that these disciples are not yet fully aware of Christ ’s divinity and have been left to wonder about the identity of this Nazarene (8:23–27). Some of the disciples’ questions begin to be answered in today’s passage. After landing on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee , the small band of men find themselves in “the country of the G