1. He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, Peace! Be still! Mark 4:39

2. 1. Who can believe it? 2. What does it mean? 3. Why does it matter? 3. It was eveningThey took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. A great gale arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. Mark 4:37-38 4. As a literary historian I am perfectly convinced that whatever else the Gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am quite clear that they are not the same sort of thing. From an imaginative point of view they are clumsy, they don't work up to things properly and no people building up a legend would allow that to be so. C. S. Lewis 5. A great gale arose, and the waves beat into the boat. Mark 4:37 6. 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. Mark 4:39 7. They were terrified Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him? Mark 4:41 8. Mark 4:40 He said to them, Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith? 9. Matthew 12:41 Something greater than Jonah is here.