I don't know whether the story is based on someone seeing Jesus walk on ice. All I know is that during that time, a freeze could have happened and it could have looked like someone was walking on water, particularly if it rained after the ice formed.
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Since the springs ice is relatively small, a person standing or walking on it may appear to an observer situated some distance away to be walking on water.
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The chance that there was ice on the lake is very, very high. It's almost guaranteed during those cold periods, 100 or 200 years long, that there was one such event at least, maybe four.
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In today's climate, the chance of springs ice forming in northern Israel is effectively zero, or about once in more than 10,000 years.
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I'm not trying to provide any information that has to do with theology here. All we've thought is about the natural process. What theologians or anybody else does with that it's their business so to speak.
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