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While they may have questioned Jesus’ care for them, at least they had the idea that He could do something about the problem. And He was with them, a fact that should have allayed fear.īefore we come down too hard on the disciples, we need to remember that they were just growing into their faith. Jesus had said, “Let us go over to the other side,” so they should have known that they would make it. Their question “Don’t you care?” was also an indignant affront to Jesus’ character. The disciples’ “raging” in the midst of the raging storm showed their lack of faith. Jesus was asleep in the boat, and the disquieted disciples were filled with consternation: “The disciples woke him and said to him, ‘Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?’” (Mark 4:38). On a closer reading, we find that it was not only the storm that was raging, but the disciples also. The disciples were awestruck as the wind and waves actually obeyed! The authority Jesus showed gave them a clue as to who He really was.

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The passage says that Jesus rebuked the storm-in other words, He told it to calm down in much the same way that a teacher might tell a classroom full of unruly students to calm down. “Peace, be still” is the command that Jesus used to calm a nighttime storm on the Sea of Galilee. He said to them, ‘Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?’ And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, ‘Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?’” (ESV). And they woke him and said to him, ‘Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?’ And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, ‘Peace! Be still!’ And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. Jesus’ command occurs near the end of Mark 4:35–41: “When evening had come, he said to them, ‘Let us go across to the other side.’ And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. The wording is slightly different in other versions: “Quiet! Be still” (New International Version) and “Hush, be still” (New American Standard Bible). Jesus utters the words “Peace, be still” in Mark 4:39 in the King James and New King James Versions as well as the English Standard Version.

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