18. Therefore consider how you listen, for whoever has, to him more will be given, and whoever does not have, even what he thinks that he has will be taken away from him.”
19. Now his mother and brothers came to him, and they were not able to meet with him because of the crowd.
20. And it was reported to him, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside wanting to see you.”
21. But he answered and said to them, “These are my mother and my brothers—the ones who hear the word of God and do it.
22. Now it happened that on one of the days both he and his disciples got into a boat, and he said to them, “Let us cross over to the other side of the lake.” And they set sail,
23. and as they were sailing, he fell asleep. And a storm of wind came down on the lake, and they were being swamped and were in danger.
24. And they came and woke him up, saying, “Master, master! We are perishing!” So he got up and rebuked the wind and the billowing waves of water and they ceased, and it became calm.
25. And he said to them, “Where is your faith?” But they were afraid and were astonished, saying to one another, “Who then is this, that he commands even the winds and the water and they obey him?”
26. And they sailed to the region of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee.
27. And as he got out on the land, a certain man from the town met him who had demons and for a considerable time had not worn clothes and did not live in a house, but among the tombs.