Questions Jesus asks
Why are you afraid?
35On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let’s go over to the other side.”
36Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him.
37A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled.
38He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and asked him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are dying?”
39He awoke and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” The wind ceased and there was a great calm.
40He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?”
41They were greatly afraid and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”
The crossing begins in the evening. A storm rises and waves fill the boat while Jesus sleeps in the stern on a cushion. Those with him wake him and ask whether he cares that they are dying. He rebukes the wind and commands the sea to be still.
The wind stops, and Jesus questions their fear and lack of faith. They remain greatly afraid and ask who he is, since the wind and sea obey him. The passage records their fear both during the storm and after the calm. How does the question from the people in the boat about Jesus change after the storm stops?
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