{"id":1465,"date":"2013-11-09T18:02:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T23:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/dev\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2013-11-09T18:02:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T23:02:49","slug":"rembrandt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/rembrandt\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark 4:35-41 — Jesus Calms the Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jesus<\/a>Jesus\u2019 calming the storm by rebuking the powers of nature (vv. 35-41) demonstrates His divinity and authority. <\/p>\n

We learn from St. Mark that, in the words of the St. Athanasius the Great, \u201cThe Lord Who rebuked (the storm) was not a creature, but rather its Creator.\u201d <\/p>\n

St. Basil the Great further teaches us that \u201cby these encounters we are meeting the Father of the Son, the Father Who creates through the Son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jesus\u2019 calming the storm by rebuking the powers of nature (vv. 35-41) demonstrates His divinity and authority. We learn from St. Mark that, in the words of the St. Athanasius the Great, \u201cThe Lord Who rebuked (the storm) was not a creature, but rather its Creator.\u201d St. Basil the Great further teaches us that \u201cby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essays","category-slider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}