Lucas 5:1

Llamamiento de los primeros discípulos

1 Un día estaba Jesús a orillas del lago de Genesaret,^[a] y la gente lo apretujaba para escuchar el mensaje de Dios.

Lucas 5:1 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 5:1

And it came to pass, that as the people pressed upon him,
&c.] As Christ went through Galilee, and preached in the synagogues there, great crowds of people attended on him, and they followed him wherever he went; and so large were their numbers, and so very eager were they to see him, and hear him, that they were even troublesome to him, and bore hard upon him, and were ready to press him down, though they had no ill design upon him, but only

to hear the word of God;
the scriptures of the Old Testament explained, and the doctrines of the Gospel preached; and which were preached by him, as never were before or since, and in such a manner as were not by the Scribes and Pharisees; and both the matter and manner of his ministry drew a vast concourse of people after him:

he stood by the lake of Gennesaret;
the same with the sea of Chinnereth, ( Numbers 34:11 ) ( Joshua 12:3 ) ( 13:27 ) where the Targums of Onkelos, Jonathan, and the Jerusalem, call it, (rowngd amy) , "the sea of Geausar" or "Gennesaret": and so it is elsewhere called ^F1, and is the same which is called the sea of Galilee, and of Tiberias, ( John 6:1 ) ( 21:1 ) and is, by other writers ^F2, as here, called the lake of Gennesaret, and said to be sixteen miles long, and six broad. Josephus says ^F3, it is forty furlongs broad, and an hundred long. The Jews say ^F4, that

``the holy, blessed God created seven seas, but chose none of them all, but the sea of Gennesaret.''

And indeed, it was a place chosen by Christ, and honoured, and made famous by him, by his preaching at it, his miracles upon it, and showing himself there after his resurrection.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 Targum in Ezek. xxxix. 11. Zohar in Gen. fol. 3. 2. & 17. 2. & in Exod. fol. 52. 4. & 61. 4.
F2 Plin. l. 5. c. 15. Solin, c. 48. Ptolom. l. 5. c. 15.
F3 De Bello Jud. l. 3. c. 18.
F4 Pirke Eliezer, c. 18.

Lucas 5:1 In-Context

1 Un día estaba Jesús a orillas del lago de Genesaret, y la gente lo apretujaba para escuchar el mensaje de Dios.

2 Entonces vio dos barcas que los pescadores habían dejado en la playa mientras lavaban las redes.

3 Subió a una de las barcas, que pertenecía a Simón, y le pidió que la alejara un poco de la orilla. Luego se sentó, y enseñaba a la gente desde la barca.

4 Cuando acabó de hablar, le dijo a Simón:—Lleva la barca hacia aguas más profundas, y echen allí las redes para pescar.

5 —Maestro, hemos estado trabajando duro toda la noche y no hemos pescado nada —le contestó Simón—. Pero como tú me lo mandas, echaré las redes.

Footnotes

• [a]. Es decir, el mar de Galilea.