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Izhibhalo Ezingcwele
ULuka 8:24
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Master: Psalms 69:1, Psalms 69:2, Psalms 116:3, Psalms 116:4, Psalms 142:4, Psalms 142:5, Lamentations 3:54-56, John 2:2-6, Matthew 14:30, 2 Corinthians 1:9, 2 Corinthians 1:10
he arose: Psalms 65:7, Psalms 104:6-9, Psalms 107:25-29, Isaiah 50:2, Jeremiah 5:22, Nahum 1:4
and rebuked: As the agitation of the sea was merely the effect of the wind, it was necessary to remove the cause of the commotion before the effect would cease. But who, by simply saying Peace, be still - Mark 4:39, could do this but God? One word of our Lord can change the face of nature, and calm the troubled ocean, as well as restore peace to the disconsolate soul.
Reciprocal: Jeremiah 49:23 - on the sea Jonah 1:15 - and the Matthew 8:25 - and awoke Matthew 8:26 - and rebuked Mark 4:38 - and they Mark 6:51 - and the Luke 4:39 - and rebuked
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And they came to him, and awoke him,.... That is, the disciples came from some part of the ship, to the hinder part of it, where Christ was asleep; and by their shrieks and cries, and repeated vociferations, awaked him out of sleep:
saying, Master, Master, we perish. The Vulgate Latin, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions, only read "master", without a repetition of the word, as in Matthew and Mark; but the Syriac and Persic versions repeat it, and render the words, "our master, our master";
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Then he rose, and rebuked the wind, and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and there was a calm;
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Barnes' Notes on the Bible
See this passage explained in the Matthew 8:23-34 notes, and Mark 5:1-20 notes.