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The Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt, 1632. Calming the storm is one of the miracles of Jesus in the Gospels, reported in Matthew 8:23–27, Mark 4:35–41, and Luke 8:22–25 (the Synoptic Gospels). This episode is distinct from Jesus' walk on water, which also involves a boat on the lake and appears later in the narrative.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. The World English Bible translates the passage as: The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat
In Mark's biography of Jesus, while he and his disciples are on Lake Galilee in a boat, a storm swells. Jesus calms the storm by saying, "Peace! Be still!" . In the same way, Psalm 107 describes the Israelites at sea when a storm arises. The waves "mounted up to heaven, they went down to the depths", (v. 26) and the Lord then "makes still" (v.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him! The New International Version translates the passage as: The men were amazed and asked, "What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!"
By doing this Jesus quiets the fear of the disciples related in the previous verse. Some other people understand the word, "plant," to be of men themselves, that is, the Scribes and Pharisees. People are often called the planting of God.
When Jesus heard what had happened, he withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. Hearing of this, the crowds followed him on foot from the towns. Several translations state that Jesus was there "alone", [1] or "by himself". [2] In contrast, the Jerusalem Bible refers to a place "where they could be by themselves". [3]
Luke 8 is the eighth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.The book containing this chapter is anonymous but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke the Evangelist, a companion of Paul the Apostle on his missionary journeys, [1] composed both this Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. [2]
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? The World English Bible translates the passage as: Or how will you tell your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye;’ and behold, the beam is in your own eye?