Luke 8:22
One day Jesus said to His disciples, "Let us cross to the other side of the lake." So He got into a boat with them and set out.
One day
This phrase sets the scene for a specific event in the life of Jesus and His disciples. The Greek word for "day" is "ἡμέρα" (hēmera), which can signify a literal day or a period of time. In the context of the Gospels, "one day" often introduces a significant teaching or miracle of Jesus, emphasizing the divine timing and purpose in His ministry.

Jesus said
The authority of Jesus is highlighted here. The Greek verb "εἶπεν" (eipen) is used, which means "said" or "spoke." This underscores the power and intentionality behind Jesus' words. In the Gospels, when Jesus speaks, His words carry divine authority and often lead to transformative events or teachings.

to His disciples
The term "disciples" comes from the Greek "μαθηταί" (mathētai), meaning "learners" or "followers." This indicates a close relationship between Jesus and those who are committed to learning from Him. The disciples are not just casual followers; they are dedicated students of Jesus' teachings and witnesses to His works.

Let us go across
This phrase is an invitation and a command. The Greek "διέλθωμεν" (dielthōmen) suggests a journey or passage. Jesus is inviting His disciples to accompany Him, indicating trust and fellowship. This journey across the lake is symbolic of the spiritual journeys Jesus invites His followers to undertake, often leading to deeper faith and understanding.

to the other side of the lake
The "lake" referred to is the Sea of Galilee, a significant location in Jesus' ministry. The phrase "other side" implies a transition or movement from one place to another, often symbolizing a shift in perspective or a new phase in ministry. The Sea of Galilee was a hub of activity and commerce, and crossing it often meant encountering new people and opportunities for ministry.

So they got into a boat
The act of getting into a boat signifies obedience and readiness to follow Jesus. The Greek word "ἐμβάντες" (embantes) means "having embarked." This action demonstrates the disciples' willingness to trust Jesus and follow His lead, even when the destination or outcome is uncertain.

and set out
The phrase "set out" comes from the Greek "ἀνήχθησαν" (anēchthēsan), meaning "they launched" or "they set sail." This indicates the beginning of a journey, both physically and spiritually. The disciples' willingness to set out with Jesus reflects their faith and commitment to His mission, despite the challenges they may face along the way.

Persons / Places / Events
1. Jesus
The central figure in this passage, Jesus is the Son of God and the teacher of His disciples. His command to cross the lake initiates the event.

2. Disciples
The followers of Jesus who accompany Him on the journey across the lake. They are learners and witnesses to Jesus' teachings and miracles.

3. The Lake
Refers to the Sea of Galilee, a significant body of water in the region where many of Jesus' teachings and miracles took place.

4. The Boat
The vessel used by Jesus and His disciples to travel across the lake. It becomes the setting for the subsequent miracle of calming the storm.

5. The Journey
The act of crossing the lake, which sets the stage for the demonstration of Jesus' authority over nature.
Teaching Points
Trust in Jesus' Leadership
Jesus initiates the journey, demonstrating His role as a leader. We are called to trust His guidance in our lives, even when the path seems uncertain.

Faith in the Midst of Storms
The journey across the lake foreshadows the storm. Believers are encouraged to maintain faith in Jesus during life's challenges, trusting in His power and presence.

Jesus' Authority Over Creation
This passage sets the stage for the miracle of calming the storm, reminding us of Jesus' divine authority and power over all creation.

Obedience to Jesus' Commands
The disciples' willingness to follow Jesus into the boat reflects the importance of obedience. We are called to follow Jesus' commands, trusting in His wisdom and purpose.

The Journey of Discipleship
The crossing of the lake symbolizes the journey of discipleship, filled with both calm and stormy moments. We are encouraged to remain steadfast in our walk with Christ.
Bible Study Questions
1. What does Jesus' command to cross the lake reveal about His leadership and authority?

2. How can we apply the disciples' obedience to Jesus' command in our own lives today?

3. In what ways does this passage prepare us for the challenges and "storms" we may face in our spiritual journey?

4. How does understanding Jesus' authority over creation impact our faith and trust in Him during difficult times?

5. What other biblical accounts of Jesus' miracles reinforce His divine nature and authority, and how do they encourage us in our faith?
Connections to Other Scriptures
Mark 4:35-41 and Matthew 8:23-27
These parallel accounts provide additional details about the calming of the storm, emphasizing Jesus' authority over nature and His disciples' lack of faith.

Psalm 107:23-30
This passage describes God's power over the sea, drawing a parallel to Jesus' divine authority in calming the storm.

John 1:1-3
Highlights Jesus as the Word and Creator, reinforcing His authority over creation, as demonstrated in calming the storm.
Christ for Our CaptainM. G. Pearse.Luke 8:22-25
Christ Rebuking the ElementsJ. Vaughan, M. A.Luke 8:22-25
Christ the Lord of NatureW. Clarkson Luke 8:22-25
God's Answers to Man's Prayers for HelpBp. W. C. Magee.Luke 8:22-25
Setting SailT. C. Finlayson.Luke 8:22-25
The Miracle on the LakeJames Foote, M. A.Luke 8:22-25
The Miraculous Stilling of the StormBp. W. C. Magee.Luke 8:22-25
The Saviour in the ShipBp. F. D. Huntington.Luke 8:22-25
The Soothing Voice of JesusRichilde.Luke 8:22-25
The Storm on the LakeF. Whitfield.Luke 8:22-25
A Group of MiraclesR.M. Edga Luke 8:22-56
People
Chuza, Herod, Jair, Jairus, James, Jesus, Joanna, John, Mary, Peter, Susanna
Places
Galilee, Gerasa
Topics
Across, Board, Boat, Cross, Disciples, Entered, Forth, Got, Lake, Lanched, Launched, Let's, Pass, Sail, Ship, Shore
Dictionary of Bible Themes
Luke 8:22-23

     4933   evening

Luke 8:22-25

     1416   miracles, nature of
     2012   Christ, authority
     4045   chaos
     5934   restraint
     6704   peace, divine NT
     6708   predestination

Luke 8:22-26

     5517   seafaring

Luke 8:22-33

     5300   drowning

Library
June 28 Evening
The Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits.--I TIM. 4:1. Take heed therefore how ye hear.--Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom.--Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them. How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Through thy
Anonymous—Daily Light on the Daily Path

November 24 Morning
My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.--LUKE 8:21. Both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren: saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren; in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.--In Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.--Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.--Blessed are they
Anonymous—Daily Light on the Daily Path

Seed among Thorns
'And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares, and riches, and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.'--Luke viii. 14. No sensible sower would cast his seed among growing thorn-bushes, and we must necessarily understand that the description in this verse is not meant to give us the picture of a field in which these were actually growing, but rather of one in which they had been grubbed up, and so preparation been made
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions Of Holy Scripture

Christ to Jairus
'When Jesus heard it, He answered, saying, Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole.' --LUKE viii. 60. The calm leisureliness of conscious power shines out very brilliantly from this story of the raising of Jairus's daughter. The father had come to Jesus, in an agony of impatience, and besought Him to heal his child, who lay 'at the point of death.' Not a moment was to be lost. Our Lord sets out with him, but on the road pauses to attend to another sufferer, the woman who laid her wasted
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions Of Holy Scripture

The Ministry of Women
'And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils, 3. And Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto Him of their substance.' --LUKE viii. 2,3. The Evangelist Luke has preserved for us several incidents in our Lord's life in which women play a prominent part. It would not, I think, be difficult to bring that fact into connection with the main characteristics of his Gospel,
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions Of Holy Scripture

One Seed and Diverse Soils
'And when much people were gathered together, and were come to Him out of every city, He spake by a parable: 5. A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the wayside; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. 6. And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture. 7. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it. 8. And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions Of Holy Scripture

A Miracle Within a Miracle
'And a woman, having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, 44. Came behind Him, and touched the border of His garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched. 45. And Jesus said, Who touched Me? When all denied, Peter, and they that were with Him, said, Master, the multitude throng Thee and press Thee, and sayest Thou, Who touched Me? 46. And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched Me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions Of Holy Scripture

The Sower and the Seed.
"A sower went out to sow his seed."--ST. LUKE viii. 5. It is significant that the first of the Saviour's parables is the parable of the sower, that the first thing to which He likens His own work is that of the sower of seed, the first lesson He has to impress upon us by any kind of comparison is that the word of God is a seed sown in our hearts, a something which contains in it the germ of a new life. It is no less significant that He returns so often to this same kind of comparison for the purpose
John Percival—Sermons at Rugby

Our Relations to the Departed
"She is not dead, but sleepeth." Luke viii.52 A Great peculiarity of the Christian religion is its transforming or transmuting power. I speak not now of the regeneration which accomplishes in the individual soul, but of the change it works upon things without. It applies the touchstone to every fact of existence, and exposes its real value. Looking through the lens of spiritual observation, it throws the realities of life into a reverse perspective from that which is seen by the sensual eye. Objects
E. H. Chapin—The Crown of Thorns

Further Journeying About Galilee.
^C Luke VIII. 1-3. ^c 1 And it came to pass soon afterwards [ i. e.,. soon after his visit to the Pharisee], that he went about through cities and villages [thus making a thorough circuit of the region of Galilee], preaching and bringing the good tidings of the kingdom of God [John had preached repentance as a preparation for the kingdom; but Jesus now appears to have preached the kingdom itself, which was indeed to bring good tidings--Rom. xiv. 17 ], and with him the twelve [We here get a glimpse
J. W. McGarvey—The Four-Fold Gospel

The Ministry of Love, the Blasphemy of Hatred, and the Mistakes of Earthly Affection - the Return to Capernaum - Healing of the Demonised Dumb -
HOWEVER interesting and important to follow the steps of our Lord on His journey through Galilee, and to group in their order the notices of it in the Gospels, the task seems almost hopeless. In truth, since none of the Evangelists attempted - should we not say, ventured - to write a Life' of the Christ, any strictly historical arrangement lay outside their purpose. Their point of view was that of the internal, rather than the external development of this history. And so events, kindred in purpose,
Alfred Edersheim—The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah

There are Some Things of this Sort Even of Our Saviour in the Gospel...
27. There are some things of this sort even of our Saviour in the Gospel, because the Lord of the Prophets deigned to be Himself also a Prophet. Such are those where, concerning the woman which had an issue of blood, He said, "Who touched Me?" [2431] and of Lazarus. "Where have ye laid him?" [2432] He asked, namely, as if not knowing that which in any wise He knew. And He did on this account feign that He knew not, that He might signify somewhat else by that His seeming ignorance: and since this
St. Augustine—Against Lying

The Right to what I Consider a Normal Standard of Living
"Have we no right to eat and to drink?"--I Corinthians 9:4 The white-haired mission secretary looked at me quizzically. "Well," he said, "it's all in your point of view. We find that these days in the tropics people may look upon the missionary's American refrigerator as a normal and necessary thing; but the cheap print curtains hanging at his windows may be to them unjustifiable extravagance!" * * * * * My mind goes back to a simple missionary home in China, with a cheap
Mabel Williamson—Have We No Rights?

In Troubles --
The king had before this time noticed a spot of immense military importance on the Seine between Rouen and Paris, the rock of Andelys. Indeed he had once tossed three Frenchmen from the rock. It was, or might be, the key to Normandy on the French side, and he feared lest Philip should seize upon it and use it against him. Consequently he pounced upon it, and began to fortify it at lavish expense. Archbishop Walter of Rouen, and late of Lincoln, in whose ecclesiastical patrimony it lay, was furious,
Charles L. Marson—Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln

Faith a New and Comprehensive Sense.

John Newton—Olney Hymns

Sundry Sharp Reproofs
This doctrine draws up a charge against several sorts: 1 Those that think themselves good Christians, yet have not learned this art of holy mourning. Luther calls mourning a rare herb'. Men have tears to shed for other things, but have none to spare for their sins. There are many murmurers, but few mourners. Most are like the stony ground which lacked moisture' (Luke 8:6). We have many cry out of hard times, but they are not sensible of hard hearts. Hot and dry is the worst temper of the body. Sure
Thomas Watson—The Beatitudes: An Exposition of Matthew 5:1-12

Thankfulness for Mercies Received, a Necessary Duty
Numberless marks does man bear in his soul, that he is fallen and estranged from God; but nothing gives a greater proof thereof, than that backwardness, which every one finds within himself, to the duty of praise and thanksgiving. When God placed the first man in paradise, his soul no doubt was so filled with a sense of the riches of the divine love, that he was continually employing that breath of life, which the Almighty had not long before breathed into him, in blessing and magnifying that all-bountiful,
George Whitefield—Selected Sermons of George Whitefield

The General Observations are These.
There are in these relations proper circumstances of time and place, and the names and characters of persons. Of the miracle on Jairus's daughter, the time and place are sufficiently specified by St. Mark and St. Luke. It was soon after his crossing the sea of Galilee, after Jesus had cured the men possessed with devils in the country of the Gergesenes, Mark v. 21. And when Jesus was passed over again by ship unto the other side, much people gathered unto him, and he was nigh unto the sea. And behold
Nathaniel Lardner—A Vindication of Three of Our Blessed Saviour's Miracles

R. W. Begins his Fifth Discourse, P. 1, 2. With Saying, that He is Now
to take into examination the three miracles of Jesus's raising the dead, viz. of Jairus's daughter, Matth. ix. Mark. v. Luke viii. of the widow of Naim's son, Luke vii. and of Lazarus, John xi: the literal stories of which, he says, he shall shew to consist of absurdities, improbabilities, and incredibilities, in order to the mystical interpretation of them. I have read over his examination of these miracles, and am still of opinion, that the histories of them are credible. I. I will therefore first
Nathaniel Lardner—A Vindication of Three of Our Blessed Saviour's Miracles

The Second Miracle at Cana.
^D John IV. 46-54. ^d 46 He came therefore again [that is, in consequence of the welcome which awaited him] Unto Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine [see page 114]. And there was a certain nobleman [literally, "king's man:" a word which Josephus uses to designate a soldier, courtier, or officer of the king. He was doubtless an officer of Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee. That it was Chuzas (Luke viii. 3) or Manaen (Acts xiii. 1) is mere conjecture], whose son was sick at Capernaum. [The
J. W. McGarvey—The Four-Fold Gospel

Ancient Versions of the Old Testament.
In the present chapter only those versions of the Old Testament are noticed which were made independently of the New. Versions of the whole Bible, made in the interest of Christianity, are considered in the following part. I. THE GREEK VERSION CALLED THE SEPTUAGINT. 1. This is worthy of special notice as the oldest existing version of the holy Scriptures, or any part of them, in any language; and also as the version which exerted a very large influence on the language and style of the New Testament;
E. P. Barrows—Companion to the Bible

General Remarks on the History of Missions in this Age.
THE operations of Christianity are always radically the same, because they flow from its essential character, and its relations to human nature; yet it makes some difference whether it is received amongst nations to whom it was previously quite unknown, either plunged in barbarism or endowed with a certain degree of civilization, proceeding from some other form of religion, or whether it attaches itself to an already existing Christian tradition. In the latter case, it will indeed have to combat
Augustus Neander—Light in the Dark Places

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