Mark 4:31-41 ▼

31 It is like a mustard seed that when sown in the ground, even though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the ground--

32 when it is sown, it grows up, becomes the greatest of all garden plants, and grows large branches so that the wild birds can nest in its shade.|

33 So with many parables like these, he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear.

34 He did not speak to them without a parable. But privately he explained everything to his own disciples.

35 On that day, when evening came, Jesus said to his disciples, |Let's go across to the other side of the lake.|

36 So after leaving the crowd, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat, and other boats were with him.

37 Now a great windstorm developed and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was nearly swamped.

38 But he was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. They woke him up and said to him, |Teacher, don't you care that we are about to die?|

39 So he got up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, |Be quiet! Calm down!| Then the wind stopped, and it was dead calm.

40 And he said to them, |Why are you cowardly? Do you still not have faith?|

41 They were overwhelmed by fear and said to one another, |Who then is this? Even the wind and sea obey him!|