34 Bible Verses about lakes
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That same day Jesus went out of the house and seated himself by the seaside;
It happened on one of these days that he embarked in a boat alone with his disciples and said to them, "Let us cross to the other side of the lake." So they set sail.
Again, the Realm of heaven is like a net which was thrown into the sea and collected fish of every sort.
As he was walking along the sea of Galilee he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and his brother Andrew, casting a net in the sea ??for they were fishermen;
and their seducer, the devil, was flung into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the Beast and the false Prophet also lie, to be tortured day and night for ever and ever.
That same day when evening came he said to them, "Let us cross to the other side;"
and the daemons came out of the man and went into the swine; the drove rushed down the steep slope into the lake and were suffocated.
and whoever was not found enrolled in the book of Life was flung into the lake of fire ??which is the second death, the lake of fire.
After that, Jesus disclosed himself once more to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. It was in this way.
After this Jesus went off to the opposite side of the sea of Galilee (the lake of Tiberias),
Then he went out again by the seaside, and all the crowd came to him and he taught them.
Then he made the disciples embark in the boat and cross before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds;
Now when evening came the boat was [far out] in the middle of the sea, and he was on the land alone;
Then Jesus removed from that country and went along the sea of Galilee; he went up the hillside and sat there.
He said to them, "Begone!" So out they came and went to the swine, and the entire drove rushed down the steep slope into the sea and perished in the water.
Then they reached the opposite side of the sea, the country of the Gerasenes.
Once more he proceeded to teach by the seaside, and a crowd gathered round him greater than ever, so he entered a boat on the sea and sat down, while all the crowd stayed on shore.
The sea gave up its corpses, Death and Hades gave up their dead, and all were judged by what each had done.
Jesus retired with his disciples to the sea, and a large number of people from Galilee followed him; also a large number came to him from Judaea,
Next day the crowd which had been left standing on the other side of the sea bethought them that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not gone aboard with his disciples, who had left by themselves.
Now a heavy storm came on at sea, so that the boat was buried under the waves. He was sleeping.
Now as the crowd were pressing on him to listen to the word of God, he saw, as he stood beside the lake of Gennesaret,
and embarking in a boat they started across the sea for Capharnahum. By this time it was dark, Jesus had not reached them yet,
When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"
but as for the craven, the faithless, the abominable, as for murderers, the immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and liars of all kinds ??their lot is the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."
Now when Jesus had crossed in the boat to the other side again, a large crowd gathered round him; so he remained beside the sea.
but the boat was now in the middle of the sea, buffeted by the waves (for the wind was against them).
After rowing about three or four miles they saw Jesus walking on the sea and nearing the boat. They were terrified,
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Now as the crowd were pressing on him to listen to the word of God, he saw, as he stood beside the lake of Gennesaret, two boats on the shore of the lake; the fishermen had disembarked and were washing their nets.