Mark 4.35-41 Our reading today is about a journey. The journey we read about here is not long. It is a nautical journey, from one side of the lake to the other. But it was eventful: something happened and the people who went on that journey were changed. It was a journey that began with obedience. It was a response to Jesus. Jesus has been teaching the crowd all day. It was a large crowd, and they were pressing on him, and he had to use a boat as a pulpit. And now, as evening comes, he says, ‘Let us go across to the other side’ (4.35). [That is why it says, ‘They took him just as he was’. In other words, he didn’t even get out of the boat.] And it was because they were obedient that those first followers · learnt about themselves · learnt about Jesus 1. They discover that they don’t really trust Jesus When the storm comes, they panic....
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