Mark 4:37 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 4:37

Soon a violent windstorm came up, and the waves were breaking over the boat, so that it was being swamped.

BSB

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ASV

And there ariseth a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the boat, insomuch that the boat was now filling.

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

Bede

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (735)

(ubi sup.) Or else the ship into which He embarked, is taken to mean the tree of His passion, by which the faithful attain to the security of the safe shore. The other ships which are said to have been with the Lord, signify those, who are imbued with faith in the cross of Christ, and are not beaten about by the whirlwind of tribulation; or who, after the storms of temptation, are enjoying the serenity of peace.

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The Medieval Church1 voice

Bede

On the Gospel of Mark (735)

And a great storm of wind arose, and the waves were beating into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. And he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. While the disciples were sailing, Christ fell asleep, because when the faithful trample …

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And there arose a great storm of wind,.... Called Laelaps, a wind that is suddenly whirled about upwards and downwards, and is said to be a storm, or tempest of wind with rain; it was a sort of a hurricane: and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was full; of water, and ready to sink. Beza says in one copy it read, βυθιζεσθαι, and so in one of Stephens's.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)

These verses describe a storm on the sea of Galilee, when our Lord and His disciples were crossing it, and a miracle performed by our Lord in calming the storm in a moment. Few miracles recorded in the Gospel were so likely to strike the minds of the apostles as this. Four of them at least were fishermen. Peter, Andrew, James, and John, had probably known the sea of Galilee, and its storms, from their youth. Few events in our Lord's journeyings to and fro upon earth, contain more rich instruction than the one related in this passage.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
γίνεται	ginetai	comes	G1096 →
λαῖλαψ	lailaps	a storm	G2978 →
μεγάλη	megalē	violent	G3173 →
ἀνέμου,	anemou	of wind	G417 →
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
τὰ	ta	the	G3588 →
κύματα	kumata	waves	G2949 →
ἐπέβαλλεν	epeballen	were breaking	G1911 →
εἰς	eis	over	G1519 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
πλοῖον	ploion	boat	G4143 →
ὥστε	hōste	so that	G5620 →
ἤδη	ēdē	already	G2235 →
γεμίζεσθαι	gemizesthai	is being filled up	G1072 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
πλοῖον.	ploion	boat.	G4143 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jonah 1:4
Then the LORD hurled a great wind upon the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship was in danger of breaking apart.
leads to
- Psalms 107:23–31
  Others went out to sea in ships, conducting trade on the mighty waters.
- Matthew 8:24–27
  Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat was engulfed by the waves; but Jesus was sleeping.
- Exodus 14:21
  Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were…
- Amos 4:13
  For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God…
- Psalms 135:7
  He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
Through
Job 1:19
when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to…
leads to
- 2 Samuel 18:33
  The king was shaken and went up to the gate chamber and wept. And as he walked, he cried out, “O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died…
- Jeremiah 4:11–12
  At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow…
- Luke 13:1–5
  At that time some of those present told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

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About Mark

Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee — Rembrandt (1633), public domain

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Mark

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Mark