Matthew 8:24
And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.
KJV
καὶ ἰδοὺ σεισμὸς μέγας ἐγένετο ἐν τῇ θαλάσσῃ, ὥστε τὸ πλοῖον καλύπτεσθαι ὑπὸ τῶν κυμάτων· αὐτὸς δὲ ἐκάθευδεν.
Greek NT
et ecce motus magnus factus est in mari, ita ut navicula operiretur fluctibus : ipse vero dormiebat.
Vulgate
And behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the boat was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.
ASV
And behold a great tempest arose in the sea, so that the boat was covered with waves, but he was asleep.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
θάλασσα
thalassa
noun · 91×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καθεύδω
katheudo
verb · 22×
καλύπτω
kalupto
verb · 8×
κῦμα
kuma
noun · 4×
μέγας
megas
adjective · 244×
πλοῖον
ploion
noun · 66×
σεισμός
seismos
noun · 14×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὁράω
orao
verb · 682×
ὑπό
upo
preposition · 221×
ὥστε
oste
conjunction · 85×
Miracle
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Leo affirms that it is one and the same Person who acts in both natures. The same Christ who as a child grows in wisdom also as God feeds five thousand. The same one who sleeps in the boat commands the storm to cease. The unity of Person means that what belongs to either nature can be predicated of the one Christ.
Cross-references
- 2Cor 11:25 — Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
- Acts 27:14 — But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon.
- Acts 27:20 — And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.
- Isa 54:11 — O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
- John 4:6 — Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
- John 6:17 — And entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them.
- Jonah 1:4 — But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
- Jonah 1:4 — But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
- Luke 8:23 — But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy.
- Mark 4:37 — And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full.
- Matt 14:24 — But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary.
- Matt 14:30 — But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.
- Prov 3:25 — Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.
- Ps 46:2 — Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
- Ps 89:9 — Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
- Ps 107:23 — They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;
- Ps 107:25 — For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.