And they went and woke him, saying, Save us, Lord; we are perishing. The disciples' cry — Save us, Lord; we are perishing — is the prayer of genuine desperation that does not worry about whether the prayer is theologically refined. The Lord who has been healing and exorcising is now being asked to do what only the God of Psalm 107 can do: still the storm. The save us is the same vocabulary as Jesus' name (the Lord saves, Matthew 1:21) — the disciples are calling on the one whose name is salvation to enact his name in the storm. However inadequate their faith (verse 26), they know where to turn in the crisis.

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