And he said to them, Why are you afraid, O you of little faith? Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. The rebuke before the miracle: little faith, then calm. The little faith is not condemned as no faith — they came to Jesus, which is the beginning of faith. But the terror in the presence of the Lord of the storm is the inconsistency that Jesus addresses. He rebuked the winds and the sea — the same language as exorcising demons in Mark 1:25, suggesting that Jesus treats the chaotic power of the storm as a hostile force to be commanded, not merely a natural phenomenon to be stilled. The great calm after the great storm is the peace that surpasses understanding.

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