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temperflash,

Don't mean to cut you off but the apocryphal is nothing but a distorted fairy tale and not God Inspired. The only value I see them having is the fact they only prove what we already know, that the 66 books we have in our Bible are in fact God Inspired Word. When you compare Gods word to these fairy tales one doesnt have to be a Bible scholar to know the difference.

I wasn't trying to "compare" the story to New Testament accounts.
I remember this same story being told in Sunday School, though without any explanation. Since that was in a rather hard headed Baptist church I doubt anyone considered it gospel, but it and a few other such stories were told.

Could be that the story is a sort of Fairy Tale, but when you examine it closely theres no need for a mystical explanation.

I remember some one trying to pull the old "lefthanded wrench gag on me at my first job.
I just turned the wrench over and said they had a lefthanded wrench already they were just holding it wrong.

There are other stories from the New Testament which could fit into a similar vein.
Oil on the Waters for instance, and putting the net out on the opposite side of the boat.

To be more clear. I'm not a hard headed materialist, and certainly not one to deny the existence of God like so many materialist do, but I figure that practically everything fits into the physical world in some way.
Gallileo thought Kepler's notion of the Gravitational pull of the Moon affecting the Tides was Occult.
Invisible forces are now recognized as a part of nature.

God created the Universe and the rules by which the Universe works.
I could actually stretch a plank if I put my mind to it, though its much easier to shrink one, but the story mentioned doesn't require a physical stretching of the plank to accomplish the same end result.