But when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified, saying: it is a ghost! And they cried out in fear. The disciples' terror at the appearance of Jesus walking on the water — they think they see a ghost — is the natural human response to the impossible. The cry of fear communicates the distress that the apparition adds to the existing stress of the storm: the disciples are afraid of the waves, and now they are afraid of what they think is approaching them.

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