Luke 5:1-9

Jesus Calls the First Disciples

1 On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by ¹the lake of Gennesaret,

2 ²and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were ³washing their nets.

3 Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And ⁴he sat down and taught the people from the boat.

4 And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, ⁵"Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch."

5 And Simon answered, "Master, ⁶we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets."

6 And when they had done this, ⁷they enclosed a large number of fish, and ⁸their nets were breaking.

7 They signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. ⁹And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink.

8 But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, ¹⁰"Depart from me, for ¹¹I am a sinful man, O Lord."

9 For he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish that they had taken,