It was a pretty amazing climax to the day. In the NRSV it takes up 10 sentences. It is a spare account that is in no way sensationalised. There don't necessarily feel like all that many places to pause in Mark- its an express train account- but here is one of them- A dead calm after chaos, with Jesus penetrating questions, and the disciples sitting there immobilised with awe, whispering to one another- who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?
“Who then is this?”
Peter – I think, is vividly remembering that evening- the awe- the trepidation- and that question he didn't know the answer to- which was deeply disturbing. Mark relays the account- without embellishment I would think- and hopes the reader picks up that unsettling invitation to try and work out the character and the substance of the central figure of his story.
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