By Michael Brown, The Stream - The Greek word used for “cowardly” also means “fearful,” and it is found two other times in the New Testament... As explained by the Greek scholar Celsas Spicq, “Jesus reproaches the apostles for this psychological fear when they are terrified by the storm... because it involves a moral deficiency: they no longer have faith, or they have but little faith in the presence of the Savior, who has to reassure them.” In contrast, “when one relies on God, there is nothing to fear.”