1
While the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennes'aret.
2
And he saw two boats by the lake; but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing 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 he sat down and taught the people from the boat.
4
And when he had ceased speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch."
5
And Simon answered, "Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets."
6
And when they had done this, they enclosed a great shoal of fish; and as their nets were breaking,
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