39And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
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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.
Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.
Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 35-41)This miracle which Christ wrought for the relief of his disciples, in stilling the storm, we had before (Matt. 8:23); but it is here more fully related. Observe, 1. It was the same day that he had preached out of a ship, when the even was come , Mark 4:35. When he had been labouring in the word and doctrine all day, instead of re posing himself, he ex poseth himself, to teach us not to think of a…
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