who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.
⛓ Read Psalm 65 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
God 'who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves' supplies the precise divine prerogative the disciples wonder at ('who is this that even the winds and water obey him?'). The identification of Jesus with YHWH's sea-mastery is the theological point, giving high Coherence.
Medium confidenceGod's stilling of 'the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves' supplies the same sea-mastery vocabulary applied to Jesus in 4:39. It reinforces the recurrence of the YHWH-stills-the-sea topos across the Psalter that frames the miracle's Christological force.
Medium confidenceGod 'who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves' ascribes to YHWH the very act Jesus performs; figural identification of Jesus with the sea-stilling deity. Strong thematic coherence.
Medium confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
God 'stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the tumult of the peoples,' linking sea-roar and nations' tumult. Jesus' pairing of the roaring sea with the perplexity of nations echoes this psalmic juxtaposition. Coherence on the distinctive sea-and-nations parallel.
Medium confidenceGod 'stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves.' The wind ceasing at Jesus' presence enacts this divine sea-calming prerogative. Reinforces the Job 9 and Psalm 107 cluster; contested as a secondary witness.
Medium confidenceThe town clerk quiets and stills the roaring multitude; only God stills the roaring of the seas and the tumult of the peoples. A faint figural touch on the stilling of crowd-tumult. Contested.
Low confidence