Mark 4:37

A strong wind came up and the waves started coming into the boat! The boat was soon nearly full of water!

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full.

In Context

36So they left the crowd, got in the boat where Jesus already was, and left. Other people went with them in other boats.

38Jesus was in the back part of the boat. He was sleeping, with his head on a cushion. So they woke him up and said to him, “Teacher! ◄You ought to be concerned that we are about to die!/Are you not concerned that we are about to die?► [RHQ]”

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Cross References

Job 1:19Suddenly a ◄very strong wind/tornado► came from the desert and struck the house. The house collapsed on your sons and daughters and killed them all! I am the only one who escaped to come and tell you what happened.”

Jonah 1:4Then Yahweh caused a very strong wind to blow, and there was such a violent storm that the sailors thought the ship would break apart.

Luke 8:22One day Jesus got into a boat with his disciples. He said to them, “Let’s go around to the other side of the lake.” So they started to go.

Acts 27:41But the ship hit a sandbank. The front of the ship stuck there and could not move, and big waves beat against the back of the ship and it began to break apart.

Matthew Henry on Mark 4:36-41

Christ and His Disciples in the Storm. 35 And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side. 36 And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships. 37 And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. 38 And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we… Read the whole commentary →

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