Jesus calms the storm

AD 31Inferred from Scripture

Mark 4:35–41; Matthew 8:23–27; Luke 8:22–25

Crossing the Sea of Galilee at evening, the disciples were caught in a violent storm while Jesus slept on a cushion. He rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.

They were greatly afraid and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”
Mark 4:41 (World English Bible)

Galilee in Jesus' ministry: most of his recorded miracles happened within a few miles of Capernaum.

Sudden storms still sweep down on the lake from the surrounding hills. Jesus asked the terrified disciples why they had no faith. On the far shore, in the country of the Gerasenes, he freed a man possessed by a legion of demons (Mark 5:1–20).

Dating notes

Ussher: AD 31. The month shown is estimated from the order of events in Ussher's harmony, so that events of the same year appear in sequence.

Open on the timeline Read Mark 4:35–41