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:
“Olivia. Is’t not well done?
Viola. Excellently done, if God did all.
Olivia. ‘Tis in grain, sir, ‘twill endure wind and weather.
Viola. ‘Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
Nature’s own sweet and cunning hand laid on.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“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)