Matthew 8:18-27
The Cost of Following Jesus
18Now when Jesus saw a crowd around Him, aHe gave orders to depart to the other side of the sea. 19aThen a scribe came and said to Him, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.” 20And Jesus *said to him, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the 1air have 2nests, but athe Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.” 21And another of the disciples said to Him, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.” 22But Jesus *said to him, “aFollow Me, and allow the dead to bury their own dead.”
Jesus Calms a Storm
23aAnd when He got into the boat, His disciples followed Him. 24And behold, there arose 1a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being covered with the waves; but Jesus Himself was sleeping. 25And they came to Him and got Him up, saying, “aSave us, Lord; we are perishing!” 26And He *said to them, “Why are you so cowardly, ayou men of little faith?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and 1it became perfectly calm. 27And the men marveled, and said, “What kind of a man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?”