44 Bible Verses about Boats

Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before Me in this generation.

But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.

However, Jonah got up to flee to Tarshish from the Lord’s presence. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. He paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish, from the Lord’s presence.

He got into one of the boats, which belonged to Simon, and asked him to put out a little from the land. Then He sat down and was teaching the crowds from the boat.

The next day, the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the sea knew there had been only one boat. They also knew that Jesus had not boarded the boat with His disciples, but that His disciples had gone off alone. Some boats from Tiberias came near the place where they ate the bread after the Lord gave thanks.

Some sailors tried to escape from the ship; they had let down the skiff into the sea, pretending that they were going to put out anchors from the bow.

They forded the Jordan to bring the king’s household across and do whatever the king desired.

When Shimei son of Gera crossed the Jordan, he fell down before the king

“I’m going fishing,” Simon Peter said to them.

“We’re coming with you,” they told him. They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.

Such large crowds gathered around Him that He got into a boat and sat down, while the whole crowd stood on the shore.

Then they were willing to take Him on board, and at once the boat was at the shore where they were heading.

But they struck a sandbar and ran the ship aground. The bow jammed fast and remained immovable, while the stern began to break up by the pounding of the waves.

sends couriers by sea,
in reed vessels on the waters.

Go, swift messengers,
to a nation tall and smooth-skinned,
to a people feared far and near,
a powerful nation with a strange language,
whose land is divided by rivers.

They sweep by like boats made of papyrus,
like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

Going on from there, He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and his brother John. They were in a boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and He called them.

Going on a little farther, He saw James the son of Zebedee and his brother John. They were in their boat mending their nets.

Immediately He called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed Him.

Then He told His disciples to have a small boat ready for Him, so the crowd would not crush Him.

Again He began to teach by the sea, and a very large crowd gathered around Him. So He got into a boat on the sea and sat down, while the whole crowd was on the shore facing the sea.

As He got into the boat, His disciples followed Him.

and immediately got into the boat with His disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha.

One day He and His disciples got into a boat, and He told them, “Let’s cross over to the other side of the lake.” So they set out,

So He got into a boat, crossed over, and came to His own town.

After dismissing the crowds, He got into the boat and went to the region of Magadan.

So they left the crowd and took Him along since He was already in the boat. And other boats were with Him.

As He was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed kept begging Him to be with Him.

When Jesus had crossed over again by boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around Him while He was by the sea.

Then He left them, got on board the boat again, and went to the other side.

Then all the people of the Gerasene region asked Him to leave them, because they were gripped by great fear. So getting into the boat, He returned.

When they got into the boat, the wind ceased.

Then He got into the boat with them, and the wind ceased. They were completely astounded,

Immediately He made the disciples get into the boat and go ahead of Him to the other side, while He dismissed the crowds.

Immediately He made His disciples get into the boat and go ahead of Him to the other side, to Bethsaida, while He dismissed the crowd.

got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. Darkness had already set in, but Jesus had not yet come to them.

So they went away in the boat by themselves to a remote place,

When Jesus heard about it, He withdrew from there by boat to a remote place to be alone. When the crowds heard this, they followed Him on foot from the towns.

The next day, the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the sea knew there had been only one boat. They also knew that Jesus had not boarded the boat with His disciples, but that His disciples had gone off alone.

A fierce windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking over the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped.

As soon as He got out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came out of the tombs and met Him.

When evening came, the boat was in the middle of the sea, and He was alone on the land.

Then they brought the boats to land, left everything, and followed Him.

Some boats from Tiberias came near the place where they ate the bread after the Lord gave thanks.

When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor His disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus.

Then the soldiers cut the ropes holding the skiff and let it drop away.

After running under the shelter of a little island called Cauda, we were barely able to get control of the skiff.