It's all about the perspective

Joonatan had heard the story of Jesus calming the storm in Sunday school. (Luke 8:22-25) On the way back I asked whether he thought that to be an amazing one. He said: yes, just think there were so big waves that they flooded into the boat.

An average man sees the amazing element in the story to be the calming of the sea, which was not a big thing to Joonatan. To him that part was something to expect in the stories about Jesus, but waves so big... To an average man who doesn't share with Joonatan the knowledge about Jesus being able to all kinds of extraordinary stuff, calming of the sea exceeds the line of the probable occurence.

Gospel of Luke is written from post-easter perspective with much hindsight. The author by the time of writing understands the whole life of Jesus, and has met him dead and resurrected. To him the amazing issue overall is the fact that by the time these events took place, the fellows witnessing all this could still not see Jesus as he was, the Son of God and the promised Messiah.

Seeing a miracle is all about the perpective, isn't it.