44 Bible Verses about Boats

Then Yahweh said to Noah, "Go--you and all your household--into the ark, for I have seen you [are] righteous before me in this generation.

But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him, and she coated it with tar and with pitch, and she placed the boy in it, and she placed [it] among the reeds on the bank of the Nile.

But Jonah set out to flee toward Tarshish from {the presence of} Yahweh. And he went down [to] Joppa and found a merchant ship going [to] Tarshish, and paid her fare, and went on board her to go with them toward Tarshish from {the presence of} Yahweh.

And he got into one of the boats, which was Simon's, [and] asked him to put out from the land a little. And he sat down [and] began to teach the crowds from the boat.

On the next day, the crowd that was on the other side of the sea saw that other boats were not there (except one), and that Jesus had not entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had departed alone. Other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread [after] the Lord had given thanks.

And [when] the sailors were seeking to escape from the ship and were lowering the ship's boat into the sea, pretending as if they were going to lay out anchors from the bow,

{The crossing took place} to bring the household of the king over and to do good in his eyes. Then Shimei the son of Gera fell before the king when he crossed over the Jordan,

Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing!" They said to him, "We also are coming with you." They went out and got into the boat, and during that night they caught nothing.

And large crowds gathered close around him, so that he got into a boat to sit down, and all the crowd was standing on the shore.

So they were wanting to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat came to the land to which they were going.

But falling into a place of crosscurrents, they ran the ship aground. And the bow stuck fast [and] stayed immovable, but the stern was being broken up by the violence.

that sends messengers by the sea and in vessels of papyrus on [the] surface of [the] waters! Go, swift messengers, to a {tall} and {smooth} nation, to a people feared {near and far}, a {mighty, mighty} and trampling nation, whose land rivers divide.

They go by like papyrus skiffs, like an eagle swoops down on [its] prey.

And going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the [son] of Zebedee and his brother John, in the boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets, and he called them.

And going on a little [farther], he saw James the [son] of Zebedee and his brother John, and they [were] in the boat mending the nets.

And immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men [and] went away after him.

And he told his disciples that a small boat should stand ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not press upon him.

And again he began to teach beside the sea, and a very large crowd was gathered to him, so that he got into a boat [and] sat on the sea, and the whole crowd was at the sea on the land.

And [as] he got into the boat, his disciples followed him.

And immediately he got into the boat with his disciples [and] went to the district of Dalmanutha.

Now it happened that on one of the days both he and his disciples got into a boat, and he said to them, "Let us cross over to the other side of the lake." And they set sail,

And getting into a boat, he crossed over and came to his own town.

And [after he] sent away the crowds, he got into the boat and went to the region of Magadan.

And leaving the crowd, they took him along, as he was, in the boat. And other boats were with him.

And [as] he was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed began to implore him that he could go with him.

And [after] Jesus had crossed over again in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered to him, and he was beside the sea.

And he left them, got into [the boat] again, [and] went to the other side.

And all the people of the surrounding region of the Gerasenes asked him to depart from them, because they had been seized with great fear. So he got into the boat [and] returned.

And [when] they got into the boat, the wind abated.

And he went up with them into the boat, and the wind abated. And {they were extraordinarily} astounded within themselves,

And immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go ahead of him to the other side, while he sent away the crowds.

And immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he himself dismissed the crowd.

And getting into a boat, they began to go to the other side of the sea, to Capernaum. And it had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.

And they went away in the boat to an isolated place by themselves.

Now [when] Jesus heard [it], he withdrew from there in a boat to an isolated place by himself. And [when] the crowds heard [it], they followed him by land from the towns.

On the next day, the crowd that was on the other side of the sea saw that other boats were not there (except one), and that Jesus had not entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had departed alone.

And a great storm of wind developed, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already being filled [with water].

And [as] he was getting out of the boat, immediately from the tombs a man with an unclean spirit went to meet him,

And [when] evening came, the boat was in the middle of the sea and he [was] alone on the land.

And [after they] brought [their] boats to the land, they left everything [and] followed him.

Other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread [after] the Lord had given thanks.

So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and came to Capernaum seeking Jesus.

Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the ship's boat and let it fall away.

And running under the lee of a certain small island called Cauda, we were able with difficulty to get the ship's boat under control.