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Four Fishermen Called as Disciples

1 So ait was, as the multitude pressed about Him to bhear the word of God, that He stood by the Lake of Gennesaret,  
2 and saw two boats standing by the lake; but the fishermen had gone from them and were washing their nets.
3 Then He got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. And He asat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.  
4 When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, a“Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”  
5 But Simon answered and said to Him, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught anothing; nevertheless bat Your word I will let down the net.”  
6 And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking.
7 So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink.
8 When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, a“Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!”  
9 For he and all who were with him were aastonished at the catch of fish which they had taken;  
10 and so also were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid. aFrom now on you will catch men.”  
11 So when they had brought their boats to land, athey forsook all and followed Him.  

Jesus Cleanses a Leper

12 aAnd it happened when He was in a certain city, that behold, a man who was full of bleprosy saw Jesus; and he fell on his face and1 implored Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”  
13 Then He put out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” aImmediately the leprosy left him.  
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Luke 5:1

Pressed upon him (epikeisqai). Luke in this paragraph (Luke 5:1-11; Mark 1:16-20; Matthew 4:18-22) does not follow the chronology of Mark as he usually does. It seems reasonably clear that the renewed call of the four fishermen came before the first tour of Galilee in Luke 4:42-44. It is here assumed that Luke is describing in his own way the incident given in Mark and Matthew above. Luke singles out Simon in a graphic way. This verb epikeisqai is an old one and means to lie upon, rest upon as of a stone on the tomb (John 11:38) or of fish on the burning coals (John 21:9). So it is used of a tempest (Acts 27:20) and of the urgent demands for Christ's crucifixion (Luke 23:23). Here it vividly pictures the eager crowds around Jesus. En tw epikeisqai is a favourite idiom with Luke as we have already seen, en with the articular infinitive in the locative case.

That (kai). Kai does not technically mean the declarative conjunction "that," but it is a fair rendering of the somewhat awkward idiom of Luke to a certain extent imitating the Hebrew use of wav.

Was standing (hn estwv). Periphrastic second past perfect of isthmi which here is equal to a practical imperfect.

By the lake (para thn limnhn). The use of the accusative with para, alongside, after a verb of rest used to be called the pregnant use, came and was standing. But that is no longer necessary, for the accusative as the case of extension is the oldest of the cases and in later Greek regains many of the earlier uses of the other cases employed for more precise distinctions. See the same idiom in verse Luke 5:2. We need not here stress the notion of extension. "With characteristic accuracy Luke never calls it a sea, while the others never call it a lake" (Plummer).




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 5:1:

Luke 5:1
Luke 8:11
John 6:1
John 21:2
Revelation 19:13
Revelation 19:20

 

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