...rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him!" "And when He was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met Him two...

...next speaker, but may mark as prominent within this pericope the people's amazed response, "What sort of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?" (cf. Ps. 107:23-32). Thus, there are syntactical indications here that Matthew's ultimate focus...