Matthew 8:18-27

International Children’s Bible

People Want to Follow Jesus

¹⁸ When Jesus saw the crowd around him, he told his followers to go to the other side of the lake. ¹⁹ Then a teacher of the law came to Jesus and said, “Teacher, I will follow you any place you go.”

²⁰ Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes to live in. The birds have nests to live in. But the Son of Man has no place where he can rest his head.”

²¹ Another man, one of Jesus’ followers, said to Jesus, “Lord, let me go and bury my father first.”

²² But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and let the people who are dead bury their own dead.”

Jesus Stops a Storm

²³ Jesus got into a boat, and his followers went with him. ²⁴ A very bad storm arose on the lake. The waves covered the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. ²⁵ The followers went to Jesus and woke him. They said, “Lord, save us! We will drown!”

²⁶ Jesus answered, “Why are you afraid? You don’t have enough faith.” Then Jesus got up and gave a command to the wind and the sea. The wind stopped, and the sea became very calm.

²⁷ The men were amazed. They said, “What kind of man is this? Even the wind and the sea obey him!”