Mark 4:35-41

New Testament for Everyone

Jesus calms the storm

³⁵ That day, when it was evening, Jesus said to them, “Let’s go over to the other side.”

³⁶ They left the crowd, and took him with them in the boat he’d been in. There were other boats with him too.

³⁷ A big windstorm blew up. The waves beat on the boat, and it quickly began to fill. ³⁸ Jesus, however, was asleep on a cushion in the stern. They woke him up.

“Teacher!” they said to him, “We’re going down! Don’t you care?”

³⁹ He got up, scolded the wind, and said to the sea, “Silence! Shut up!”

The wind died, and there was a flat calm. ⁴⁰ Then he said to them, “Why are you scared? Don’t you believe yet?”

⁴¹ Great fear stole over them. “Who is this?” they said to each other. “Even the wind and the sea do what he says!”