The Lord Passeth By

There are a number of passages in the Old Testament that uses this exact same Greek phrase, describes somebody passing someone by. In Mark 648 we see Jesus walking upon the sea and would have passed them by just like the Lord does time and again in the Old testament. But instead they cry out, it's a ghost. And here's where it gets even more interesting. The one thing that ghosts absolutely cannot do in antiquity is walk on water. Water actually forms a boundary for ghosts. Ghosts cannot pass over water. This comes from tales Greek mythology of the dead needing a boat to ferry them across to get to the land of the dead.

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