Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
To put out a little (epanagagein oligon). Second aorist infinitive of the double compound verb ep-an-agw, found in Xenophon and late Greek writers generally. Only twice in the N.T. In Matthew 21:18 in the sense of leading back or returning and here in the sense of leading a ship up upon the sea, to put out to sea, a nautical term.
Taught (edikasken). Imperfect active, picturing Jesus teaching from the boat in which he was seated and so safe from the jam of the crowd. "Christ uses Peter's boat as a pulpit whence to throw the net of the Gospel over His hearers" (Plummer).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 5:3:
Luke 4:20
Luke 5:1
Luke 5:4
John 21:2
1 Peter 1:6
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