Why did Jesus preach from a boat when the crowd was pressing in on him? First, sound travels quite easily over water, and on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, by Capernaum, there is a naturally occurring amphitheater, where the acoustics would have also made it easier for people to hear Jesus. Today this spot is called the "Bay of Parables." Gospel stories that seem odd or illogical often turn out to have sensible explanations when you think about them carefully, or when you are able to see the locales in which they happened. I talk a lot about stories and places like this, as well as about the Bay of Parables, in my new book "Jesus: A Pilgrimage." 

So firstly Jesus knows Physics, in today’s world He would have multiple Nobel Prizes, I belief having an intimate relationship with Jesus He can teach us so many wonders and marvels about Physics. Maybe your child needs extra physics lessons, ask Jesus to come and teach him/her. This is my wish and my prayer for both me and you, may Jesus daily teach us new physics wonders. 

The second wonder in this tale was when they actually caught so many fish that the nets wanted to tear, now firstly in the previous podcast I explained about the poverty in Galilea, I’ll explain it again: Fishing was also a source of income, but Herod Antipas started fishing commercially, basically taking all the fish, so the fishing industry was dying. I recently went to Ponta Do Ouro for a holiday, one of my favourite places in the world. The Mozambique Government gave the fishing rights away to the China as a barter deal for the road they built from the Ponta border to Maputo. Usually we will have an abundance of fresh shellfish available, to sell on the beach, in shops or even to eat in restaurants. With our last visit there, and I think the barter deal has only been operational for at least 18months, we obtained no prawns. Our first stop back in South Africa was to John Dory’s just to eat prawns. It was so sad. Furthermore the crime has ten folded increased in Ponta, because of the lack of income of local fishermen. I think this is to a lesser extent what happened in Capernaum, the people were very poor.