The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; around and around goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns.
The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.
He made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed.
For he commanded and raised the stormy wind, which lifted up the waves of the sea.
you whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind?
From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds.
Now when the south wind blew gently, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close to the shore. But soon a tempestuous wind, called the northeaster, struck down from the land. And when the ship was caught and could not face the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along.
And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”
“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
But the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up.
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