Rebuking The Wind and Waves
The chapter ends with an account of Jesus's calming of the storm at sea. He is sleeping while crossing the lake in a boat with his disciples. A storm comes up and they frantically wake him:
- He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, `Peace! Be still!`. Then the wind ceased and there was a dead calm...And they were filled with great awe and said to one another `Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?` (Mark 4:39-41)
Parallel versions of this account are also found in Mathew 8:23-27 and Luke 8:22-25.
Dr. R.A.Cole, author of a book on Mark in the Tyndale New Testament Commentary series, writes:
- We must remember that miracles are not meaningless magic but designed to show us who Jesus was.
Read more about this topic: Mark 4
Famous quotes containing the words wind and/or waves:
“Our courage breaks like an old tree in a black wind and dies,
But we have hidden in our hearts the flame out of the eyes
Of Cathleen, the daughter of Houlihan.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“He says the waves in the ship’s wake
are like stones rolling away.
I don’t see it that way.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)