Matthew 8:25
And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish.
Cross-references
In Matthew 14:30, Peter cries 'Lord, save me' while sinking — an identical plea in a similar life-threatening moment.
Psalm 44:23 cries 'Awake! Why are you sleeping, O Lord?' — a direct parallel to the disciples waking Jesus in their panic.
Isaiah 51:9 calls on the arm of the Lord to awake — echoing the disciples' urgent call for divine intervention.
In Mark 4:38, the disciples wake Jesus with the same 'perishing' cry — a synoptic parallel of the identical event.
Mark 4:39 records Jesus rebuking the wind and sea — the divine answer to the disciples' plea for salvation.
Luke 8:24 gives the parallel account with the same cry and Jesus rebuking the storm — confirming the story.
Psalm 107:28 directly describes sailors crying to the Lord in a storm — the same setting and response pattern as here.
In Jonah 1:6, the captain wakes Jonah to call on God during a storm — a similar scene of a sleeper and a cry for salvation.
In Exodus 14:10, Israel cries out to the Lord when trapped by the sea — a parallel desperate plea in a life-threatening situation.
In 2 Chronicles 20:12, Jehoshaphat's prayer expresses total dependence on God — echoing the disciples' helpless cry.