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Commentaries on Matthew 14:33

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

Then they that were in the ship,.... Not only the rest of the disciples, who remained in it, whilst Peter came forth out of it, to walk upon the sea, to go to Christ: but the mariners also, the owners of the vessel, and their servants that managed it, came and worshipped him: not merely in a civil, but in a religious way; being convinced, by what they saw, that he must be truly and properly God,...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

John the Baptist had said concerning Christ, He must increase, but I must decrease, John iii. 30. The morning-star is here disappearing, and the Sun of righteousness rising to its meridian lustre. Here is, I. The martyrdom of John; his imprisonment for his faithfulness to Herod (ver. 1-5), and the beheading of him to please Herodias, ver. 6-12. II. The miracles of Christ. 1. His feeding five...

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God. This seems to have been the first time that the disciples arrived at this conclusion so as to state it so positively; yet, do you not think that, after the miraculous multiplication of the loaves and fishes, they might have very fitly said, “Of a truth thou art the Son of God”? Sometimes, however,...

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased. Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying, of a truth thou art the Son of God. Well might they worship, for they had seen abundant proof of his deity. They worshipped him, saying, “of a...

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God. No wonder that Peter “worshipped him,” nor that his comrades did the same. The whole of the disciples, who had been thus rescued by their Lord’s coming to them on the stormy sea, were overwhelmingly convinced of his Godhead. Now they were doubly sure of it by unquestionable evidence, and in lowly...