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|And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
 
|And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
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|He got up and disapproved of the wind, and commanded the sea to be silent and still. The wind then stopped, and there was complete calm.
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|He got up and chided the wind, and said to the sea: Silence, be quite! The wind then stopped, and there was complete calm.
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|This is often mistranslated as [[Jesus]] saying a command, when the more straightforward translation is consistent with [[quantum mechanics]]: it was his observation and [[faith]], not the spoken word, that ended the [[chaos]].  φιμόω: means to be kept in check, not a spoken command. λέγω '''''Note that the similar descriptions in Matthew and Luke properly omit any spoken command'''''.
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<br>σιωπάω means to be silent; φιμόω means to be kept in check.  Those are the two Greek words in the command by Jesus to the stormy sea.
   
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