15So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.
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And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm.
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves. …
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-17)It is plain that Jonah is the man for whose sake this evil is upon them, but the discovery of him to be so was not sufficient to answer the demands of this tempest; they had found him out, but something more was to be done, for still the sea wrought and was tempestuous (Jonah 1:11), and again (Jonah 1:13), it grew more and more tempestuous (so the margin reads it); for if we discover sin to be the…
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