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Once while Jesus was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God,
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he saw two boats there at the shore of the lake; the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.
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He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a little way from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat.
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