Hi everyone and welcome back to the podcast.

Today we're looking at a fairly famous passage of Jesus calming the storm.

So let's start by reading the passage. It's Mark Chapter 4 and then we'll have a look at the storm. So let's start by reading the passage.

It's Mark Chapter 4, and then we'll have a look at the meaning of some of the key ideas.

What's Mark trying to convey?

So Mark chapter 4, verse 35 to 41.

With the coming of evening, Jesus said to his disciples,

let us cross over to the other side.

And, leaving the crowd behind, they took him just as he was in the boat,

and there were other boats with him.

Then it began to blow a gale and the waves were breaking into the boat so that it was almost

swamped.

But he was in the stern, his head on the cushion, asleep.

They woke him and said to him, Master, do you not care?

We are going down.

And he woke up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea,

Quiet now, be calm.

And the wind dropped and all was calm again.

Then he said to them, why are you so frightened?

How is it that you have no faith?

They were filled with awe and said to one another, who can this be? Even the wind and the

sea obey him. So verse 35 at the start here it says with the coming of evening, or a better

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