Mark 1:19; Matthew 4:21
Two ships - The ships used on so small a lake were probably no more than fishing-boats without decks, and easily drawn up on the beach. Josephus...
The Call of the First Disciples ( cf. Mark 1:16-20 *, Matthew 4:18-22 *). The eager crowds that attend Jesus show His need of assistants. The...
saw. App-133. Not the same word as in Luke 5:27 ; Luke 5:1 two ships. At that time there were about 4,000 on the lake. ships . boats. standi...
And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets. Two ships - Δυο πλοια, Two vessels, I...
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, In our exposition of M...
Miraculous Draught of Fishes. The Palsied Man 1-11. First miraculous draught of fishes (peculiar to Lk). Many critics identify this incident with...
V. (1-11) And it came to pass... — See Notes on Matthew 4:18-22 . The narrative here has so many points in common with that in St. Matthew and...
Two ships. — Better, boats, or little ships, the Greek word being a diminutive, as in John 6:23 . The narrative implies that they were the boa...
Chapter 10 THE CALLING OF THE FOUR. WHEN Peter and his companions had the interview with Jesus by the Jordan, and were summoned to follow Him, it...
New Catchers of Men Luke 5:1-11 Not their first call, recorded in John 1:35-42 , but another which preceded their appointment to the apostolat...
Four of Jesus' disciples, already called into the relation of discipleship, are here called more definitely to service. Taking command of their vesse...
(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, (2) And saw two ships stan...
And saw two ships standing by the lake ,.... Or two fishing boats; which were, as the Arabic version renders it, "detained by anchors at the shore o...
And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets. Ver. 2. Were washing their nets ]...
As the people pressed upon him , with great eagerness, to hear the word of God Insomuch that no house could contain them: they perceived Christ's...
PETER, JAMES AND JOHN CALLED AS DISCIPLES (vs.1-11) It is good to read in verse 1 that by the Lake of Gennesaret (or Sea of Galilee) the people p...
The Call of Peter, James, and John. 1 And it came to pass, that, as the people pr...
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Jesus Reveals His Authority Over Both Fish and Fishermen and Calls the Fishermen To Fish Men (5:1-11) . The first incident in which Jesus' Messian...
‘And he saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them, and were washing their nets.' So with the crowds pressing Him so...
CRITICAL NOTES Luke 5:1 . To hear the word of God .—“His preaching in the synagogues had excited so much attention that the people followed Him...
Luke 5:1-11 Fishers of Men. I. This passage reminds us that discipleship comes before apostleship. Peter had been, for at least some months, a do...
Luke 5:1-2 . 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, and saw two shi...
Luke 5:3 . He sat down, and taught the people out of the ship. Here he used those beautiful parables, in Matthew 13 .; but Matthew's gospel being...
EXPOSITION When St. Luke compiled his Gospel, many of the circumstances connected with the early relations of the leaders of Christianity with t...
The Miraculous Draught of Fishes and the Call of the First Disciples. Luke 5:1-11 Preaching on the shore of the sea:
and saw two ships standing by the lake; but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets.
2 And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets.