Today’s passage: Mark 4:35-41
Helpful thoughts:
- A Galilean boat would have been big enough to hold about 15 people. Approximately 26.6 feet long and 7.5 feet wide. If the wind was heavy and the waves crashing into the boat, it would have been quite amazing to see someone sleeping through that.
- When God the Son tells the wind and the sea to settle down, they listen.
- Once a great calm came over creation, a great fear continued in the hearts of these people.
- They were filled with fear in the storm.
- They were filled with fear in the calm.
- Faith and trust in God are needed to calm the storm of our fears.
Questions to consider:
- Why wasn’t Jesus scared? What had he come to do (Mark 10:45)? Why wasn’t that storm going to be the end of Him (Or the disciples)?
- What did the disciples’ question at the end of verse 38 assume? Who told them they were perishing? Did Jesus care? What all could they have learned (And us too!) from this experience?
- What is the answer to the disciples’ question in verse 41? Who is Jesus? What then must we do in response?