Note: Sequence of paragraphs on the right goes backwards

3. (To have Direction) Note dignity of the person

4:35-41 Other side calms sea - who is this

8:13 - 21 Other side bread - not yet realise

4:35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let us go across to the other side." 36 And leaving the crowd they took him with them, just as he was, in the boat. And other boats were with him. 37 And a great storm of wind arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. 39 But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him and said to him. "Teacher do you not care if we perish?" 39 And he awoke and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. 40 He said to them, "Why are you afraid? Have you no faith?" 41 And they were filled with awe, and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even wind and sea obey him?"

8:13 and leaving them again embarking he went away to the other side. 14 And they forgot to take loaves and except one loaf they had not with themselves in the ship. 15 and he charged them saying: See Look ye from the leaven of the Pharisees and of the leaven of Herod. 16 and they reasoned with one another because loaves they have (had) not. 17 And knowing he says to them: Why reason ye because loaves ye have not? not yet understand ye nor realise, having been hardened have ye the heart of you? 18 eyes having see ye not, and ears having hear ye not? and do ye not remember, 19 when the five loaves I broke to the five thousand, how many baskets of fragments full ye took? They say to him: Twelve. 20 When the seven to the four thousand, of how many baskets fullness of fragments ye took? And they say: Seven, 21 and he said to them: Not yet do ye realise?

Note: hardness of heart as connected to sea crossing also occurs in point 10. This also fits a "cameo" of water symbols which center around the sea crossing in John and which in turn connects with finding direction. Also the walking on sea in John is connected with the rising again of Lazarus. (Is "rising again" our key direction but it is hampered by hardness of heart?)

4. (To have Direction) Realise big picture is complex

5:1-20

Country Gerasines c/f sea swine into sea

8:10-13

Region Dalmanutha c/f ship Pharisees seeking sign

5:1 They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasines. 2 And when he had come out of the boat, there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, 3 who lived among the tombs; and no one could bind him any more, even with a chain; 4 for he had often been bound with fetters and chains, but the chains he wrenched apart, and the fetters he broke in pieces; and no one had the strength to subdue him. 5 Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out, and bruising himself with stones. 5 And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and worshipped him; 7 and crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have you to do with me, Jesus, son of the most high God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me." 8 For he had said to him, "come out of the man, you unclean spirit!" 9 And Jesus asked him, "what is your name? He replied, "My name is legion; for we are many." 10 And he begged him eagerly not to send them out of the country. 11 Now a great herd of swine was feeding there on the hillside; 12 and they begged him, "Send us to the swine, let us enter them." 13 So he gave them leave. and the unclean spirits came out, and entered the swine; and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and were drowned in the sea. 14 The herdsmen fled, and told it in the city and in the country. And people came to see what it was that had happed. 15 And they came to Jesus, and saw the demoniac sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, the man who had had the legion; and they were afraid. 16 And those who had seen it told what had happened to the demoniac and to the swine. 17 And they began to beg Jesus to depart from their neighbourhood. 19 and as he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed with demons begged him that he might be with him. 19 But he refused, and said to him, "Go home to your friends, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you." 20 And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him; and all men marvelled.

8:10 and immediately embarking in the ship with the disciples of him he came into the region of Dalmanutha. 11 and came forth the Pharisees and began to debate with him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, tempting him. 12 And groaning in the spirit of him he says: Why the generation this does seek a sign? Truly, I tell you, it will be given the generation to this a sign.