He said to them, “Where is your faith?” Being afraid they marveled, saying to one another, “Who is this then, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?”
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He said to them, “Where is your faith?” Being afraid they marveled, saying to one another, “Who is this then, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?”
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And he sayd vnto them: where is youre faith? They feared and wondred sayinge one to another: what felowe is this? for he commaundeth bothe the wyndes and water and they obey him?
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Then he sayde vnto them, Where is your fayth? and they feared, and wondered among them selues, saying, Who is this that commandeth both the windes and water, and they obey him!
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Passages linked to Luke 8:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Matthew 8:26 He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.
- Proverbs 30:4 Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you know?
- Mark 4:40-41 He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?” They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”
- Matthew 14:31 Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?”
- John 11:40 Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”
- Genesis 1:9-10 God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so. God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good.
- Proverbs 8:29 when 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 17:20 He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.
- Luke 12:28 But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith?
- Joshua 10:12-14 Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel. He said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!” The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn’t this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the middle of the sky, and didn’t hurry to go down about a whole day. There was no day like that before it or after it, that Yahweh listened to the voice of a man; for Yahweh fought for Israel.
- Job 38:8-10 “Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb, when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness, marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,
- Matthew 6:30 But 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?
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 25 And he said unto them, Where is your…
25 And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him.
Ver. 25. Where is your faith?] It is not having faith, but living by it, the actuating of it, that helps us in an exigence.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes,....…
And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes,.... In Mat 8:28 it is called the country of the Gergesenes; see Gill on Mat 8:28 as it is here, in the Arabic and Ethiopic versions; and "of the Gerasenes", in the Vulgate Latin; but the Syriac and Persic versions read, "of the Gadarenes", as in Mar 5:1. See Gill on Mar 5:1.
which is over against Galilee: from whence the ship launched, and Christ and his disciples came.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 25. Where is your faith?] Ye have a…
Verse 25. Where is your faith?] Ye have a power to believe, and yet do not exercise it! Depend on God. Ye have little faith, (Mt 8:26), because you do not use the grace which I have already given you. Many are looking for more faith without using that which they have. It is as possible to hide this talent as any other.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain After Christ had appeased the storm at sea, the…
After Christ had appeased the storm at sea, the disciples, all astonishment at the miracle, began to whisper to each other, saying, Who is this? not that the disciples were ignorant of whom they were speaking, but they wondered at his mighty works, and at the glory of his divine power. (St. Ambrose)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 25. What manner of man] Rather, Who, then. The…
25. What manner of man] Rather, Who, then. The ara expresses the same surprise and emotion conveyed by the potapos, ‘what kind of Being,’ of St Matthew. Psa_107:23-30.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (25) What manner of man.—Better, Who then is this?
(25) What manner of man.—Better, Who then is this?
And water.—Better, and the water.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Where Is your faith?
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Where Is your faith?
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Where is your faith?
It is as much as if He had said, You thought that I was sleeping. But was it indeed only Me, or chiefly My eye, that slept? Was it not your faith.? You say, Where is the Lord? but I say, Where is your faith? It is a mistake, brethren, we are all making every day. We say,--The Lord sleeps--the Lord sleeps. But what is it,--Your faithsleeps. I begin by asking every one I am now addressing, Where is your faith? Where is your faith? Now tell me, is it in the First Great Source? or, is it in second causes?
1. It is astonishing how many men are putting their faith upon second causes! I can imagine the fisherman in the storm, looking at the wind and the gathering clouds, partly because they come with less trouble; partly from long habit; partly from the aversion which there is in the mind of men to every thing spiritual; but chiefly because men imagine they have no right to go up straight to God. Hence almost all men are found trying means as if they were ends; and Gods instruments as if they were gods. For instance, one man has a friend, and he hangs upon that friend, and you may see him behaving to that friend as if he considered that friend the arbiter of his life. Another is a man in business, and his study is about nothing every day but his connection, and it is plain that he looks to nothing but his connection to determine his rise or his ruin in the enterprise in which he is embarked. A third man is a farmer, and you will hear him talking about the weather, as if the crops had no other father but the sun and the rain. A fourth is a politician, and he makes the world turn--as upon a pivot--on the consideration whether this administration shall be in, or that. All are making their system of cause and effect; and they do not calculate upon the shadow of a doubt that if there is a prescribed cause, there must be the predicted event. Their whole hearts--their whole faith is in second cause. Now, brethren, we do not hesitate to arraign this trusting in second cause as sheer idolatry. It is the essential of God that He is final, and what is final is made God.
2. But I will turn to another class of lifes voyagers, and say, again, Where is your faith? Is it not in yourselves? Perhaps the fishermen on the Galilean lake thought it very little for them to cross those oft-traversed waters, and would have laughed at the idea of there being any danger in their barque landing in safety on the other side. Yet how little booted their skill and their confidence! There are two distinct ways in which persons put faith in themselves. One is, in trusting there is a sufficient measure of goodness in their own hearts: the other, is by admitting their hearts are very bad, but still, taking a compensation in something that they are doing.
3. But I turn to the third class, and I ask again, Where is your faith? and a thousand voices will answer me almost in this church, Why, in God; but I reply, In what God? But you say, Oh, Him that is all mercy and all goodness. All! and all just! Is not God all just? would He be just if He forfeited His own word? And has not He said it, The soul that sinneth it shall die? Has not He said, Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish? Has He not said, He that believeth not shall be damned? Has not he made a particular requirement of you, that you must keep His whole law; and has He not made it as sure, as necessary a thing, that every sin shall lead on to misery, as every seed leads on to its own harvest? O, tell me, is it possible--in any view you may take of good government--that any breach of itslaws should pass unpunished? Is not the suffering of the offender part of the mercy--the centre of the mercy--of a grand administrator? Else, would not license, aye, and premium, too, be given to crime? and must not the whole empire pass into recklessness and misery? (J. Vaughan, M. A.)
Where is your faith?
1. I believe in God. How lightly, how carelessly, we repeat those solemn words, and yet what a universe of meaning lies in them!
2. Do we believe? Do we at all know what belief means? Do we suppose it to mean, I am familiar with these formulae, I see no special reason for rejecting them. Thou believest that there is one God. Thou doest well. The devils also believe; nay more, they tremble.
3. I believe, but, while with orthodox self-satisfaction we repeat our creeds, on which soul has dawned the tremendous responsibility of our belief, the transcendent obligation of all that it entails?
4. What, then, is wanting? Faith is wanting--that faith which is a possessing principle, an irresistible enthusiasm. Real faith--not the ineffectual pretence; not the faith which makes idols of formulae; not the faith which delights in rigid systems and fantastic self-delusions, groping in mediaeval traditions for a dead and material and exclusive Christ. Had we but faith as a grain of mustard-seed we should remove the mountains which overshadow and threaten to fall on us. (Archdeacon Farrar.)
Fear rebuked
One day when Stonewall Jackson, with his sister-in-law, was crossing the boiling torrent, just below the American falls at Niagara, in a slight boat manned by two oarsmen, the current so swirled the boat that the lady became terrified, believing they were going to the bottom. Jackson seized her by the arms, and turned to one of the men and said, How often have you crossed here? I have been rowing people across, sir, for twelve years. Did you ever meet with an accident? Never, sir. Never were capsized? never lost a life? Nothing of the kind, sir! Then turning in a somewhat peremptory tone, he said to the lady, You hear what the boatman says, and unless you think you can take the oars and row better than he does, sit still and trust him as I do. (Mackay.)
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