Matthew 8:26

Jesus rebukes the disciples' fearful little faith, then commands the wind and sea into a great calm. He shows divine authority over creation itself.

Cross-references · 22

• Isa 41:10–14Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
• Ps 65:7who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.
• Ps 107:28–30Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress.
• Ps 89:9You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.
• Luke 8:24–25They came to him, and awoke him, saying, “Master, master, we are dying!” He awoke, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and it was calm.
• Matt 6:30But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?
• Mark 4:39–41He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
• Rom 4:20Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,
• Job 38:8–11“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,
• Mark 6:48–51Seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea, and he would have passed by them,
• Matt 16:8Jesus, perceiving it, said, “Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, ‘because you have brought no bread?’
• Matt 14:30–31But when he saw that the wind was strong, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, “Lord, save me!”
• Isa 50:2–4Why, when I came, was there no one? when I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.
• Ps 93:3–4The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.
• Ps 114:3–7The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.
• Ps 104:6–9You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.
• Matt 8:27The men marveled, saying, “What kind of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”
• Nah 1:4He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.
• Isa 63:12Who caused his glorious arm to be at Moses’ right hand? Who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
• Prov 8:28–29when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong,
• Rev 10:2He had in his hand a little open book. He set his right foot on the sea, and his left on the land.
• Hab 3:8Was Yahweh displeased with the rivers? Was your anger against the rivers, or your wrath against the sea, that you rode on your horses, on your chariots of salvation?

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