Book of Common Prayer
God’s love, God’s power—in us
14 Because of this, I am kneeling down before the father, 15 the one who gives the name of “family” to every family that there is, in heaven and on earth. 16 My prayer is this: that he will lay out all the riches of his glory to give you strength and power, through his spirit, in your inner being; 17 that the Messiah may make his home in your hearts, through faith; that love may be your root, your firm foundation; 18 and that you may be strong enough (with all God’s holy ones) to grasp the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the Messiah’s love—though actually it’s so deep that nobody can really know it! So may God fill you with all his fullness.
20 So: to the one who is capable of doing far, far more than we can ask or imagine, granted the power which is working in us— 21 to him be glory, in the church, and in Messiah Jesus, to all generations, and to the ages of ages! Amen!
18 When Jesus saw the crowd all around him, he told them to go across to the other side of the lake. 19 A scribe came up and spoke to him.
“Teacher,” he said, “I will follow you wherever you go!”
20 “Foxes have their dens,” replied Jesus, “and the birds in the sky have their nests. But the son of man has nowhere he can lay his head.”
21 “Master,” said another of his disciples, “let me first go and see to my father’s funeral.”
22 “Follow me!” replied Jesus. “And leave the dead to bury their own dead.”
The calming of the storm
23 So Jesus got into the boat, and his disciples followed him. 24 All of a sudden a great storm blew up on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves. Jesus, however, was asleep. 25 They came and woke him up.
“Help! Master! Rescue us!” they shouted. “We’re done for!”
26 “Why are you so scared, you little-faith lot?” he replied.
Then he got up and told the wind and the sea to behave themselves, and there was a great calm. 27 They were all astonished.
“What sort of man is this,” they said, “that the winds and the sea do what he says?”
Scripture quotations from The New Testament for Everyone are copyright © Nicholas Thomas Wright 2011, 2018, 2019.