Luke 5:6

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

Luke 5:6 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 5:6

And when they had done this
Had put the ship out further to sea, and had let down their net:

they enclosed a great multitude of fish;
in their net, which by the secret divine power of Christ, were gathered together just in that place, where by his order they cast the net:

and their net brake;
with the weight and number, of the fishes, yet not so as to let the fish out; the Arabic version reads, "it was within a little that their nets were broke": they were just upon breaking, the draught was so numerous, the struggling so great, and the weight so heavy.

Luke 5:6 In-Context

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.

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

8 And [when he] saw [it], Simon Peter fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, Lord, because I am {a sinful man}!"

Footnotes

• [a] *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("did") which is understood as temporal
• [b] *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to tear")