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?”