25And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish.
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So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. …
And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? …
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.
And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-27)Christ had given sailing orders to his disciples (Matt. 8:18), that they should depart to the other side of the sea of Tiberias , into the country of Gadara, in the tribe of Gad, which lay east of Jordan; thither he would go to rescue a poor creature that was possessed with a legion of devils , though he foresaw how he should be affronted there. Now. 1. He chose to go by water. It had not been muc…
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