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Mateo 8:25
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and awoke: Psalms 10:1, Psalms 44:22, Psalms 44:23, Isaiah 51:9, Isaiah 51:10, Mark 4:38, Mark 4:39, Luke 8:24
save: 2 Chronicles 14:11, 2 Chronicles 20:12, Jonah 1:6
Reciprocal: Genesis 19:19 - lest some Exodus 14:10 - cried out Psalms 12:1 - Help Psalms 107:28 - General Jeremiah 17:14 - save Jeremiah 31:35 - when Matthew 14:30 - Lord Acts 27:20 - and no
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And his disciples came unto him,.... From some other part of the ship, being in great consternation, and distress,
and awoke him; saying, Lord, save us, we perish. They awoke him by their loud cries, and repeated calls; for in Luke, the form of address is doubled, "Master, Master!" expressing their distress, importunity, and haste for deliverance saying, "save us, we perish", or "we are lost": which shows the apprehensions they had of their condition; not only that they were in danger of being lost, or were ready to be lost, but were lost: they saw no probability of escaping by any natural, rational methods: wherefore they apply to Christ, believing that he was able to save them, in this their extremity; as they had indeed a great deal of reason to conclude, from the miracles they had that day seen performed by him.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Save us - Save our lives.
We perish - We are in danger of perishing. This showed great confidence in the Saviour. It shows, also, where sinners and Christians should always go who feel that they are in danger of perishing. There is none that can save from the storms of divine wrath but the Son of God.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Matthew 8:25. And his disciples — THE disciples. In the common printed editions, as well as in our translation, it is HIS disciples, but αυτου, his, is omitted by the very best MSS., and by Bengel, Wetstein, and Griesbach. This is a matter of very small importance, and need not be noticed; only every translator and commentator should aim, to the uttermost of his knowledge and power, to give every particle of the language of the inspired penman that can be expressed, and to insert no one word which he has reason to believe did not come by the inspiration of God.
Lord, save us: we perish. — One advantage of trials is to make us know our weakness, so as to oblige us to have recourse to God by faith in Christ. It is by faith alone that we may be said to approach him; by love we are united to him, and by prayer we awake him. All good perishes in us without Christ: without his grace, there is not so much as one moment in which we are not in danger of utter ruin. How proper, then, is this short prayer for us, and how familiar should it be to us! Taken in the extensive Christian sense it is exceedingly expressive: it comprehends all the power of our Lord's might, all the merit of his atonement, and all the depth of our misery and danger. See Quesnel.