8. Then they asked him, “Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil is on us. What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What is your country? Of what people are you?”
9. He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.”
10. Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, “What have you done?” For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them.
11. Then they said to him, “What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us?” For the sea grew more and more stormy.
12. He said to them, “Take me up, and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for you; for I know that because of me this great storm is on you.”
13. Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more stormy against them.