1 Machabæorum 14:30

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Videns vero ventum validum, timuit : et cum cœpisset mergi, clamavit dicens : Domine, salvum me fac.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Videns vero ventum validum, timuit: et cum cœpisset mergi, clamavit dicens: Domine, salvum me fac.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Videns vero ventum validum timuit et, cum coepisset mergi, clamavit dicens: "Domine, salvum me fac!".

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

when: Matthew 26:69-75, 2 Kings 6:15, Mark 14:38, Mark 14:66-72, Luke 22:54-61, John 18:25-27, 2 Timothy 4:16, 2 Timothy 4:17

boisterous: or, strong

Lord: Matthew 8:24, Matthew 8:25, Psalms 3:7, Psalms 69:1, Psalms 69:2, Psalms 107:27-30, Psalms 116:3, Psalms 116:4, Lamentations 3:54-57, Jonah 2:2-7, 2 Corinthians 12:7-10

Reciprocal: Exodus 14:10 - sore afraid Judges 1:19 - but could Judges 4:8 - General Psalms 12:1 - Help Jeremiah 17:14 - save Matthew 8:26 - Why Matthew 17:20 - Because Luke 8:24 - Master

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But when he saw the wind boisterous,.... Or "strong", blowing hard against him, and raising up the waves, which beat with great violence upon him,

he was afraid; though Christ was so nigh him, and he had had such an instance of his power in bearing him up, causing him to walk upon the waters thus far; which shows, that his faith was imperfect:

and beginning to sink; through fear, and the violence of the wind and waves, just ready to be immersed, and go down to the bottom of the sea,

he cried; being in a great fright and much danger, and with great importunity and eagerness,

saying, Lord, save me: I am just going, I shall certainly perish else; still having so much faith in Christ, that he was able to save him in the last extremity.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And Peter answered ... - Here is an instance of the characteristic ardor and rashness of Peter. He had less real faith than he supposed, and more ardor than his faith would justify. He was rash, headlong, incautious, really attached to Jesus, but still easily daunted and prone to fall. He was afraid, therefore, when in danger, and, sinking, cried again for help. Thus he was suffered to learn his own character, and his dependence on Jesus: a lesson which all Christians are permitted sooner or later to learn by dear-bought experience.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 30. When he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid — It was by faith in the power of Christ he was upheld; when that faith failed, by which the laws of gravitation were suspended, no wonder that those laws returned to their wonted action, and that he began to sink. It was not the violence of the winds, nor the raging of the waves, which endangered his life, but his littleness of faith.