1 So ^ait was, as the multitude pressed about Him to ^bhear the word of God, that He stood by the Lake of Gennesaret,  ‡

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.”  ‡