"Why are you so easily frightened," He replied, "you men of little faith?" Then He rose and reproved the winds and the waves, and there was a perfect calm;

So He roused Himself and rebuked the wind, and said to the waves, "Silence! Be still!" The wind sank, and a perfect calm set in.

So they came and woke Him, crying, "Rabbi, Rabbi, we are drowning." Then He roused Himself and rebuked the wind and the surging of the water, and they ceased and there was a calm.

And since you claim the name of Jew, and find rest and satisfaction in the Law, and make your boast in God,

Have we not a right to claim food and drink?

This was not because we had not a claim upon you, but it arose from a desire to set you an example--for you to imitate us.

but--as befits women making a claim to godliness--with the ornament of good works.

So Christ also did not claim for Himself the honour of being made High Priest, but was appointed to it by Him who said to Him, "My Son art Thou: I have to-day become Thy Father;"

For you have not come to a material object all ablaze with fire, and to gloom and darkness and storm and trumpet-blast and the sound of words--

If we claim to be already free from sin, we lead ourselves astray and the truth has no place in our hearts.