'Wind' in the Bible
While they were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
Meanwhile the boat, already far from land, was taking a beating from the waves because the wind was against it.
But when he saw the strong wind he became afraid. And starting to sink, he cried out, "Lord, save me!"
So he got up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Be quiet! Calm down!" Then the wind stopped, and it was dead calm.
They were overwhelmed by fear and said to one another, "Who then is this? Even the wind and sea obey him!"
He saw them straining at the oars, because the wind was against them. As the night was ending, he came to them walking on the sea, for he wanted to pass by them.
Then he went up with them into the boat, and the wind ceased. They were completely astonished,
When John's messengers had gone, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
They came and woke him, saying, "Master, Master, we are about to die!" So he got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waves; they died down, and it was calm.
And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, 'There will be scorching heat,' and there is.
The wind blows wherever it will, and you hear the sound it makes, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."
By now a strong wind was blowing and the sea was getting rough.
Suddenly a sound like a violent wind blowing came from heaven and filled the entire house where they were sitting.
We sailed slowly for many days and arrived with difficulty off Cnidus. Because the wind prevented us from going any farther, we sailed under the lee of Crete off Salmone.
When a gentle south wind sprang up, they thought they could carry out their purpose, so they weighed anchor and sailed close along the coast of Crete.
Not long after this, a hurricane-force wind called the northeaster blew down from the island.
When the ship was caught in it and could not head into the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along.
So they slipped the anchors and left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the linkage that bound the steering oars together. Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind and steered toward the beach.
From there we cast off and arrived at Rhegium, and after one day a south wind sprang up and on the second day we came to Puteoli.
So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.
But he must ask in faith without doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed around by the wind.
and the stars in the sky fell to the earth like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when shaken by a fierce wind.
After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth so no wind could blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree.