Mark 4:38. He was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow.
This “pillow” (προσκεφύλαιον) is supposed by critics to have been different from the soft pillow used for a headrest in houses. See note on Ezekiel 13:18 (#573). Such an article would hardly be in place in a fisherman’s boat. It was rather the cushion or fleece on which the rowers sat when they pulled the oars. “This use of προσκεφύλαιον for ‘cushion to sit upon,’ though rare, is found occasionally in even the purest classical writers” (Bloomfield).