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but after it has been planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all the plants, with such big branches that the birds flying about can build nests in its shade."
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With many parables like these he spoke the message to them, to the extent that they were capable of hearing it.
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He did not say a thing to them without using a parable; when he was alone with his own talmidim he explained everything to them.
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That day, when evening had come, Yeshua said to them, "Let's cross to the other side of the lake."
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So, leaving the crowd behind, they took him just as he was, in the boat; and there were other boats with him.
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A furious windstorm arose, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was close to being swamped.
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But he was in the stern on a cushion, asleep. They woke him and said to him, "Rabbi, doesn't it matter to you that we're about to be killed?"
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He awoke, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, "Quiet! Be still!" The wind subsided, and there was a dead calm.
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He said to them, "Why are you afraid? Have you no trust even now?"
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But they were terrified and asked each other, "Who can this be, that even the wind and the waves obey him?"