Matthew 8

Matthew 8:21

Mat. 8:21. “And another of His disciples said unto Him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father,” - i.e. let me stay till my aged father is dead. He was not willing to follow Him yet, and pleads this as an excuse, that his father was old and needed his care; or he was dear to him, and he was loath to leave him while he was alive: but after he should be dead, he would be willing to follow Him.

Mat. 8:25

Matthew 8:25

Mat. 8:25. “And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us, we perish.” This ship shadows to us the Christian church, which indeed it contained in it, with its head. God commonly suffers his people to be just upon the very brink of destruction before he delivers them; as here the tempest arose so much, that the ship was covered with waves. God seems to be asleep, and so lets them alone, as Christ was, and must be awakened by the earnest prayers and cries of his people, before he will deliver them; and says, as in Psalms 44:23, “Awake! why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise; cast us not off for ever!” Psalms 7:6; Psalms 7:23; Psalms 78:65, “Then will the Lord awake us one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.”

Mat. 9:10