{"id":1723,"date":"2019-02-02T16:39:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T20:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunergoi.com\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2019-02-02T16:39:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T20:39:15","slug":"why-does-the-gospel-writer-mention-that-jesus-slept-in-the-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=1723","title":{"rendered":"Why Does The Gospel Writer Mention that Jesus Slept in the Boat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/jesus-sleep-storm\/\">my latest post<\/a> at the Gospel Coalition website about the possible reasons Mark selects out the fact that Jesus was sleeping in the back of the boat in Mark 4. I offer three possibilities that are by no means mutually exclusive.  This article is an adapted excerpt from my book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wholeness-Imperative-Unifies-Desires-Identity\/dp\/1527101525\/?tag=thegospcoal-20\"><em>The Wholeness Imperative: How Christ Unifies our Desires, Identity, and Impact in the World<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Christian Focus, 2018). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The story of the sea storm in the Gospel of Mark picks up right after Jesus has given a series of sermons. He\u2019s preached to a crowd so large that he had to speak from a boat pushed a short distance into the water.<\/p><p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/esv\/Mark%204.35%E2%80%9341\" target=\"_blank\">Mark 4:35\u201341<\/a>\u00a0tells the story of Jesus calming the storm\u2014but, curiously, we find the Lord asleep as the chaos breaks out around him:<\/p><p>And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, \u201cTeacher, do you not care that we are perishing?\u201d And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, \u201cPeace! Be still!\u201d And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/esv\/Mark%204.37%E2%80%9339\" target=\"_blank\">Mark 4:37\u201339<\/a>)<\/p><p>Why was Jesus asleep in the boat?<\/p><p>There are a few possible explanations. Mark, as well as most of the other biblical authors, is spare with his details\u2014including only those elements necessary to the author\u2019s agenda\u2014so we could assume it\u2019s a salient element to the story. There are three possibilities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/jesus-sleep-storm\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here is my latest post at the Gospel Coalition website about the possible reasons Mark selects out the fact that Jesus was sleeping \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=1723\"> [...]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_excerpt -->","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sunergoi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/qtq80-3a2O3A.jpeg?fit=2160%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ESBE-rN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1725,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions\/1725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}