Verse 26

But he said to them,“Why are you cowardly, you people of little faith?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was dead calm.

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 41:10-14 : 10 Don’t be afraid, for I am with you! Don’t be frightened, for I am your God! I strengthen you– yes, I help you– yes, I uphold you with my saving right hand! 11 Look, all who were angry at you will be ashamed and humiliated; your adversaries will be reduced to nothing and perish. 12 When you will look for your opponents, you will not find them; your enemies will be reduced to absolutely nothing. 13 For I am the LORD your God, the one who takes hold of your right hand, who says to you,‘Don’t be afraid, I am helping you.’ 14 Don’t be afraid, despised insignificant Jacob, men of Israel. I am helping you,” says the LORD, your protector, the Holy One of Israel.
  • Matt 6:30 : 30 And if this is how God clothes the wild grass, which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, won’t he clothe you even more, you people of little faith?
  • Ps 65:7 : 7 You calm the raging seas and their roaring waves, as well as the commotion made by the nations.
  • Ps 89:9 : 9 You rule over the proud sea. When its waves surge, you calm them.
  • Ps 107:28-30 : 28 They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles. 29 He calmed the storm, and the waves grew silent. 30 The sailors rejoiced because the waves grew quiet, and he led them to the harbor they desired.
  • Mark 6:48-51 : 48 He saw them straining at the oars, because the wind was against them. As the night was ending, he came to them walking on the sea, for he wanted to pass by them. 49 When they saw him walking on the water they thought he was a ghost. They cried out, 50 for they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them:“Have courage! It is I. Do not be afraid.” 51 Then he went up with them into the boat, and the wind ceased. They were completely astonished,
  • Luke 8:24-25 : 24 They came and woke him, saying,“Master, Master, we are about to die!” So he got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waves; they died down, and it was calm. 25 Then he said to them,“Where is your faith?” But they were afraid and amazed, saying to one another,“Who then is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him!”
  • Matt 16:8 : 8 When Jesus learned of this, he said,“You who have such little faith! Why are you arguing among yourselves about having no bread?
  • Mark 4:39-41 : 39 So he got up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea,“Be quiet! Calm down!” Then the wind stopped, and it was dead calm. 40 And he said to them,“Why are you cowardly? Do you still not have faith?” 41 They were overwhelmed by fear and said to one another,“Who then is this? Even the wind and sea obey him!”
  • Job 38:8-9 : 8 “Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out of the womb, 9 when I made the storm clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band, 10 when I prescribed its limits, and set in place its bolts and doors, 11 when I said,‘To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined’?
  • Rom 4:20 : 20 He did not waver in unbelief about the promise of God but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.
  • Rev 10:2 : 2 He held in his hand a little scroll that was open, and he put his right foot on the sea and his left on the land.
  • Ps 114:3-7 : 3 The sea looked and fled; the Jordan River turned back. 4 The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. 5 Why do you flee, O sea? Why do you turn back, O Jordan River? 6 Why do you skip like rams, O mountains, like lambs, O hills? 7 Tremble, O earth, before the Lord– before the God of Jacob,
  • Prov 8:28-29 : 28 when he established the clouds above, when he secured the fountains of the deep, 29 when he gave the sea his decree that the waters should not pass over his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
  • Matt 8:27 : 27 And the men were amazed and said,“What sort of person is this? Even the winds and the sea obey him!”
  • Matt 14:30-31 : 30 But when he saw the strong wind he became afraid. And starting to sink, he cried out,“Lord, save me!” 31 Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him, saying to him,“You of little faith, why did you doubt?”
  • Ps 93:3-4 : 3 The waves roar, O LORD, the waves roar, the waves roar and crash. 4 Above the sound of the surging water, and the mighty waves of the sea, the LORD sits enthroned in majesty.
  • Ps 104:6-9 : 6 The watery deep covered it like a garment; the waters reached above the mountains. 7 Your shout made the waters retreat; at the sound of your thunderous voice they hurried off– 8 as the mountains rose up, and the valleys went down– to the place you appointed for them. 9 You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross, so that they would not cover the earth again.
  • Isa 50:2-4 : 2 Why does no one challenge me when I come? Why does no one respond when I call? Is my hand too weak to deliver you? Do I lack the power to rescue you? Look, with a mere shout I can dry up the sea; I can turn streams into a desert, so the fish rot away and die from lack of water. 3 I can clothe the sky in darkness; I can cover it with sackcloth.” 4 The Servant Perseveres The Sovereign LORD has given me the capacity to be his spokesman, so that I know how to help the weary. He wakes me up every morning; he makes me alert so I can listen attentively as disciples do.
  • Isa 63:12 : 12 the one who made his majestic power available to Moses, who divided the water before them, gaining for himself a lasting reputation,
  • Nah 1:4 : 4 He shouts a battle cry against the sea and makes it dry up; he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither; the blossom of Lebanon withers.
  • Hab 3:8 : 8 Was the LORD mad at the rivers? Were you angry with the rivers? Were you enraged at the sea? Such that you would climb into your horse-drawn chariots, your victorious chariots?