Mark 4:39

He awoke and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” The wind ceased and there was a great calm.

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In The King James Version

And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

In Context

38He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and asked him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are dying?”

40He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?”

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Cross References

Exodus 14:22The children of Israel went into the middle of the sea on the dry ground; and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

Job 38:11and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here’?

Psalms 65:7You still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.

Psalms 93:3The floods have lifted up, LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.

Psalms 107:29He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still.

Proverbs 8:29when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

Matthew Henry on Mark 4:36-41

Christ and His Disciples in the Storm. 35 And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side. 36 And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships. 37 And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. 38 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… Read the whole commentary →

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