When they saw him walking on the lake, they thought he was a ghost. They cried out — the disciples' response to Jesus walking on the water is to identify him as a ghost (phantasma, apparition). Their cried out is the cry of fear, not recognition. They have just experienced the feeding miracle and are now in a wind-beaten boat, and the figure walking on the water does not register as Jesus but as a supernatural threat. The category available to them (ghost) cannot hold the reality they are encountering (the Son of God).

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