New Revised Standard Version
But when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified, saying, “It is a ghost!” And they cried out in fear.

Contemporary English Version
When they saw him, they thought he was a ghost. They were terrified and started screaming.

New American Bible
When the disciples saw him walking on the sea they were terrified. “It is a ghost,” they said, and they cried out in fear.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they seeing him walking upon the sea, were troubled, saying: It is an apparition. And they cried out for fear.

And they seeing him walking upon the sea, were troubled, saying: It is an apparition. And they cried out for fear.

they were.

1 Samuel 28:12-14 And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice, and said to Saul: Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul. . . .

Job 4:14-16 Fear seized upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were affrighted: . . .

Daniel 10:6-12 And his body was like the chrysolite, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as a burning lamp: and his arms, and all downward even to the feet, like in appearance to glittering brass: and the voice of his word like the voice of a multitude. . . .

Mark 6:49,50 But they seeing him walking upon the sea, thought it was an apparition, and they cried out. . . .

Luke 1:11,12 And there appeared to him an angel of the Lord, standing on the right side of the altar of incense. . . .

Luke 24:5,45 And as they were afraid and bowed down their countenance towards the ground, they said unto them: Why seek you the living with the dead? . . .

Acts 12:15 But they said to her: Thou art mad. But she affirmed that it was so. Then said they: It is his angel.

Revelation 1:17 And when I had seen him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying: Fear not. I am the First and the Last,