Jesus sees the crowds and gives orders to depart to the other side of the sea when a scribe comes to him, saying that he will follow wherever he goes. A second man says he needs to bury his father before he can follow. Jesus' reply, in essence, is to first count the cost. In the next miracles he performs, Jesus proves his authority over nature, the wind and the waves, then over the demonic world, and over sin and infirmity.