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Psalms 107:23–30
Sailors experience the LORD’s terrifying sovereignty over wind and waves, cry to him, and see the storm brought to calm. The Gospel accounts of Jesus stilling the sea strongly resonate with the divine authority celebrated here, yet Psalm 107 itself is a hymn of providential rescue. The connection is best taught as a canonical divine-authority pattern rather than a formal quotation.
Psalm 107 portrays terrified sailors crying to the LORD, who stills the storm and hushes the waves. Jesus’ direct command over wind and water makes this one of Luke 8’s strongest divine-authority resonances.
Israel's Scriptures repeatedly portray the LORD as the one who rules or stills raging seas. Jesus' rebuke of wind and sea therefore belongs to a powerful biblical divine-authority image world, though Matthew does not quote a Psalm explicitly.
Psalm 107 and Jonah both depict sailors in mortal terror during a divinely governed storm, crying out amid a raging sea that is ultimately calmed. The correspondence creates a strong biblical storm-at-sea pattern while leaving open the question of direct literary dependence.
Jesus stilling the storm strongly resonates with Psalm 107, where terrified sailors cry to the LORD and he calms the waves. The Gospel scene therefore places Jesus within a divine-action pattern the Psalm assigns to YHWH, while Mark gives no formal quotation formula.
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