Luke 5:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

OLBGrk; LUKE CHAPTER 5 Luke 5:1-3 Christ teacheth the people out of Simon's ship. Luke 5:4-11 The miraculous draught of fishes: Simon and the two sons of Zebedee follow him. Luke 5:12-15 Christ cleanseth a leper, Luke 5:16 prayeth in the wilderness, Luke 5:17-26 answereth the reasonings of the scribes and Pharisees concerning his forgiving sins, and healeth the sick of the palsy, Luke 5:27,28 calleth Levi from the receipt of custom, Luke 5:29-32 justifieth his eating with publicans and sinners, Luke 5:33-35 excuses his disciples from fasting for the present, Luke 5:36-39 and illustrates the matter by a twofold parable. Ver. 1,2. It is by many interpreters thought that Luke in this history, to Luke 5:11, doth but give us a larger account of what Matthew, Matthew 4:18, and Mark, Mark 1:16, told us shortly. The sea of Galilee (as they call it) and the lake of Gennesaret were both the same, receiving the different denomination from the opposite coasts between which it was. hara thn limnhn had been better translated upon, or at, than by the lake, for without doubt the two ships here mentioned were upon the water, though possibly fastened as usually to the shore.

Luke 5:1

1 And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret,