Luke 5:1-6

Jesus Calls His First Disciples

1 Now it happened that while the crowd was pressing around him and hearing the word of God, he was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret,

2 and he saw two boats there beside the lake, but the fishermen had gotten out of them [and] were washing their nets.

3 And he got into one of the boats, which was Simon's, [and] asked him to put out from the land a little. And he sat down [and] began to teach the crowds from the boat.

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

5 And Simon answered [and] said, "Master, [although we] worked hard through the whole night, we caught nothing. But at your word I will let down the nets."

6 And [when they] did this, they caught a very large number of fish, and their nets began to tear.

Footnotes

• [a]. Another name for the Sea of Galilee
• [b]. *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("had gotten out") has been translated as a finite verb
• [c]. *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("got") has been translated as a finite verb
• [d]. *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("sat down") has been translated as a finite verb
• [e]. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to teach")
• [f]. *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("answered") has been translated as a finite verb
• [g]. *Here "[although]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("worked hard") which is understood as concessive
• [h]. *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("did") which is understood as temporal
• [i]. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to tear")