[Footnote a: Eight of these ten parables go in pairs (the sower and the seed growing of itself, the tares and the net, the mustard seed and the leaven, the hid treasure and the pearl of great price). But nothing can be made out of the number of the parables spoken on this day. We do not even know what the number was. Jesus had spoken various shorter and more or less isolated parables before this occasion. An immediate occasion for the use of so many and such extended parables at this point was the hostility of the Pharisees and the need of special instruction for the disciples who were taught by Jesus how to interpret parables, though they had much difficulty later in applying the instruction about the parabolic teaching.] § 65. IN CROSSING THE LAKE, JESUS STILLS THE TEMPEST Same day. Sea of Galilee Mark 4:35-41 |Matt. 8:18, 23-27 |Luke 8:22-25 | | 35 And on that day, |18 Now when Jesus saw| when even was come, | great multitudes | he saith unto them, | about him, he gave | Let us go over unto | commandment to | the other side. | depart unto the |22 Now it came to | other side. | pass on one of 36 And leaving the |23 And when he was | those days, that multitude, they take| entered into a boat,| he entered into a him with them, even | his disciples | boat, himself and as he was, in the | followed him. | his disciples; and boat. And other | | he said unto them, boats were with him.| | Let us go over to | | the other side of | | the lake: and they | | launched forth. | |23 But as they sailed | | he fell asleep: 37 And there ariseth a |24 And | and there came great storm of wind,| behold, there arose | down a storm of and the waves beat | a great tempest in | wind on the lake; into the boat, | the sea, insomuch | and they were insomuch that the | that the boat was | filling _with boat was now | covered with the | water_, and were 38 filling. And he | waves: but he was | in jeopardy. himself was in the |25 asleep. And they | stern, asleep on the| came to him, and | cushion: and they | awoke him, saying, |24 And awake him, and say | Save, Lord; we | they came to him, unto him, Master, | perish. | and awoke him, carest thou not that| | saying, Master, 39 we perish? And he |26 And he saith | master, we perish.