God’s control of the sea, and Exod. 14:21–31, the account of Israel’s deliverance from the sea through Moses. The story may be based on some incident in the life of Jesus, but, if so, it is impossible now to say anything about the nature of that incident. The account is indeed intrinsically improbable, since we find experienced fishermen, not merely taken by surprise by the weather, but apparently scared out of their wits by a sudden storm, while Jesus, the landlubber, sleeps calmly in the stern;