walking on water

1. A miraculous act performed by Jesus , according to the Gospels . They record that Jesus walked on the Sea of Galilee to rejoin his disciples , who had departed ahead of him in a ship. When he reached the ship, the winds that had been blowing stopped, and the disciples worshiped him as the true son of God.

Notes

Figuratively, to “walk on water” is to perform an impossible or godlike task: “When I told him the project had to be done by Tuesday, he made me feel as though I were asking him to walk on water.”