Luke 8:15-26

¹⁵But by that in the good ground are meant those who, having heard the message, keep it in the good, rich soil of their hearts, and patiently yield a return.

¹⁶“No one sets light to a lamp and then covers it with a bowl or puts it underneath a couch, but they put it on a lamp-stand, so that anyone who comes in may see the light.

¹⁷Nothing is hidden which will not be brought into the light of day, not ever kept hidden which will not some day become known and come into the light of day.

¹⁸Take care, then, how you listen. For, to all those who have, more will be given; while, from all those who have nothing, even what they seem to have will be taken away.”

¹⁹Presently Jesus' mother and brothers came where he was, but they were not able to join him because of the crowd.

²⁰So word was brought to him — ‘Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you.’

²¹His reply, spoken to them all, was, “My mother and my brothers are those who listen to God's teaching and do what it says.”

²²One day about that time, Jesus got into a boat with his disciples and said to them, “Let us go across the lake.”

²³So they put off. While they were sailing, Jesus fell asleep. A squall swept down on the lake, and their boat was filling and they were in danger.

²⁴So the disciples came and roused him. “Sir, Sir,” they cried, “we are lost!” Jesus rose and rebuked the wind and the rushing waves, and they fell, and a calm followed.

²⁵“Where is your faith?” he exclaimed. But in great awe and amazement they said to one another, “Who can this be, who commands even the winds and the waves, and they obey him?”

²⁶And they reached the region of the Gerasenes, which is on the opposite side to Galilee;