Book of Common Prayer

¹⁹ But some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium, and persuaded the crowds to stone Paul. They dragged him outside the city, thinking he was dead. ²⁰ The disciples gathered round him, however, and he got up and went into the city. The next day he and Barnabas went off to Derbe.

Opening the door of faith

²¹ They preached in Derbe, and made many disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium and Antioch, ²² strengthening the hearts of the disciples, and urging them to remain in the faith. They warned them that getting into God’s kingdom would mean going through considerable suffering. ²³ In every church they appointed elders by laying hands on them. They fasted, prayed, and commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

²⁴ They went through Pisidia and came to Pamphylia; ²⁵ and when they had spoken the word in Perga they went down to Attalia. ²⁶ From there they sailed to Antioch, which was where they had been commended to God’s grace for the work which they had accomplished. ²⁷ Once there, they called the church together, and told them all the things which God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith for the Gentiles. ²⁸ They stayed there a long time with the disciples.

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!”