Church fathers

Athanasius, “For when he arose and rebuked the sea and silenced the storm, he plainly disclosed two things: That the storm of the sea was not simply from winds but from fear of the Lord who walked upon it; and that the Lord who rebuked it was not a creature but rather its creator.”

“ They awakened the Word, who was sailing with them, and immediately the sea became smooth at the command of its Lord, and they were saved.”

Gregory Nazianzen, “He was tired – yet he is the ‘rest’ of the weary and the burdened. He was overcome by heavy sleep – yet he goes lightly over the sea, rebukes the winds and relieves the drowning Peter.”

Ephraim the Syrian, “The ship carried his humanity, but the power of his Godhead carried the ship and all that was in it. In order that he might show that even his humanity did not require the ship, instead of the planks which a shipwright puts together and fastens, he, like the architect of creation, made the waters firm and joined them together solidly under his feet.”