This lovely Delft tile was a gift from a Dutch friend - recently reframed. Curiously the text given is wrong - it should be Matthew 14.29ff. Something happened in the proof reading, copy ediiting and textual transmission
In any case the scene of Peter being helped out of the water by Jesus seems to suggest Jesus is on the shore giving a helping hand to a soaking Peter.
Which in turn suggests the artist's recall of the Gospel stories may be a conflation of the three stories - Jesus calms the storm (Mark); Jesus walks on water (Mathhew); Jesus appears after the resurrection (John).
All of which makes the picture even more evocative, and a reminder that when you are in deep....seawater, Jesus isnae far away
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