Matthew 8:25

Lord, save us: we perish.

It is curious and significant that, while each of the three evangelists reports the words with which Christ was awakened, they do not agree. Matthew's report is, Lord, save us, we perish; Mark, Teacher, carest thou not that we perish? Luke, Master, Master, we perish. The difference is not merely verbal; there is also. difference of tone in the three appeals. The first is the language of appeal, the second that of reproach, the third that of importunity aroused by imminent danger.-- Abbott. The sense of the disciples waking the Lord and seeking to be saved is one and the same; nor is it worth while to inquire which of these three was really said to Christ. For whether they said any one of these three, or other words which one of the evangelists has mentioned, but of similar import as to the truth of the sense, what matters it? Though it may be, also, that when many were calling upon him, all these may have been said, one by one, another by another.-- Augustine.