Luke 5:1-3
THE MIRACULOUS DRAUGHT OF FISHES AND THE CALL OF THE FIRST DISCIPLES. Luke 5:1 Preaching on the shore of the sea:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MIRACULOUS DRAUGHT OF FISHES AND THE CALL OF THE FIRST DISCIPLES. Luke 5:1 Preaching on the shore of the sea:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS THAT, AS THE PEOPLE PRESSED UPON HIM TO HEAR THE WORD OF GOD, HE STOOD BY THE LAKE OF GENNESARET,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SAW TWO SHIPS STANDING BY THE LAKE; BUT THE FISHERMEN WERE GONE OUT OF THEM, AND WERE WASHING THEIR NETS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE ENTERED INTO ONE OF THE SHIPS, WHICH WAS SIMON'S, AND PRAYED HIM THAT HE WOULD THRUST OUT A LITTLE FROM THE LAND. AND HE SAT DOWN, AND TAUGHT THE PEOPLE OUT OF THE SHIP. Jesus had left the city of Capernaum on a certain day, with the intention of walking along the shore of the lake, Matthew 4... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW WHEN HE HAD LEFT SPEAKING, HE SAID UNTO SIMON, LAUNCH OUT INTO THE DEEP, AND LET DOWN YOUR NETS FOR A DRAUGHT.... [ Continue Reading ]
The miraculous draught:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SIMON, ANSWERING, SAID UNTO HIM, MASTER, WE HAVE TOILED ALL THE NIGHT AND HAVE TAKEN NOTHING; NEVERTHELESS AT THY WORD I WILL LET DOWN THE NET.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY HAD THIS DONE, THEY INCLOSED A GREAT MULTITUDE OF FISHES; AND THEIR NET BRAKE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY BECKONED UNTO THEIR PARTNERS, WHICH WERE IN THE OTHER SHIP, THAT THEY SHOULD COME AND HELP THEM. AND THEY CAME AND FILLED BOTH THE SHIPS, SO THAT THEY BEGAN TO SINK. The discourse of the Lord may have taken up the greater part of the forenoon. But now He made a pause in His speaking, and ad... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN SIMON PETER SAW IT, HE FELL DOWN AT JESUS' KNEES, SAYING, DEPART FROM ME; FOR I AM A SINFUL MAN, O LORD.... [ Continue Reading ]
The call of Simon... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HE WAS ASTONISHED, AND ALL THAT WERE WITH HIM, AT THE DRAUGHT OF THE FISHES WHICH THEY HAD TAKEN;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SO WAS ALSO JAMES AND JOHN, THE SONS OF ZEBEDEE, WHICH WERE PARTNERS WITH SIMON. AND JESUS SAID UNTO SIMON, FEAR NOT; FROM HENCEFORTH THOU SHALT CATCH MEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY HAD BROUGHT THEIR SHIPS TO LAND, THEY FORSOOK ALL AND FOLLOWED HIM. Peter was most deeply affected by the miracle, of which he had been not merely a spectator, but a partaker and recipient. It was the first time that Peter had been brought so close to the almighty power of Christ that... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS WHEN HE WAS IN A CERTAIN CITY, BEHOLD, A MAN FULL OF LEPROSY, WHO, SEEING JESUS, FELL ON HIS FACE AND BESOUGHT HIM, SAYING, LORD, IF THOU WILT, THOU CANST MAKE ME CLEAN.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HEALING OF A LEPER AND OF A PARALYTIC. Luke 5:12 Healing a leper:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE PUT FORTH HIS HAND, AND TOUCHED HIM, SAYING, I WILL; BE THOU CLEAN. AND IMMEDIATELY THE LEPROSY DEPARTED FROM HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE CHARGED HIM TO TELL NO MAN; BUT GO AND SHOW THYSELF TO THE PRIEST, AND OFFER FOR THY CLEANSING, ACCORDING AS MOSES COMMANDED, FOR A TESTIMONY UNTO THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT SO MUCH THE MORE WENT THERE A FAME ABROAD OF HIM; AND GREAT MULTITUDES CAME TOGETHER TO HEAR, AND TO BE HEALED BY HIM OF THEIR INFIRMITIES. Luke does not, as a rule, tell the Gospel-stories in the order in which they happened, except in a general way. This usually, as here, appears from the word... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE WITHDREW HIMSELF INTO THE WILDERNESS AND PRAYED. He asked and received strength from His heavenly Father to carry on His work according to the divine will. This constant communication with God was the secret of His being able to perform so much work; a hint that might well be applied in the... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS ON A CERTAIN DAY, AS HE WAS TEACHING, THAT THERE WERE PHARISEES AND DOCTORS OF THE LAW SITTING BY, WHICH WERE COME OUT OF EVERY TOWN OF GALILEE AND JUDEA AND JERUSALEM; AND THE POWER OF THE, LORD WAS PRESENT TO HEAL THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
The healing of the paralytic:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND, BEHOLD, MEN BROUGHT IN A BED A MAN WHICH WAS TAKEN WITH A PALSY; AND THEY SOUGHT MEANS TO BRING HIM IN, AND TO LAY HIM BEFORE HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY COULD NOT FIND BY WHAT WAY THEY MIGHT BRING HIM IN BECAUSE OF THE MULTITUDE, THEY WENT UPON THE HOUSETOP, AND LET HIM DOWN THROUGH THE TILING WITH HIS COUCH INTO THE MIDST BEFORE JESUS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE SAW THEIR FAITH, HE SAID UNTO HIM, MAN, THY SINS ARE FORGIVEN THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SCRIBES AND THE PHARISEES BEGAN TO REASON, SAYING, "WHO IS THIS WHICH SPEAKETH BLASPHEMIES? WHO CAN FORGIVE SINS BUT GOD ALONE? The first indication of the systematic effort on the part of the leaders of the Jewish Church to persecute and discredit Jesus. The story is an independent incident... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN JESUS PERCEIVED THEIR THOUGHTS, HE, ANSWERING, SAID UNTO THEM, WHAT REASON YE IN YOUR HEARTS?... [ Continue Reading ]
The miracle:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHETHER IS EASIER, TO SAY, THY SINS BE FORGIVEN THEE; OR TO SAY, ELSE UP AND WALK?... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THAT YE MAY KNOW THAT THE SON OF MAN HATH POWER UPON EARTH TO FORGIVE SINS, (HE SAID UNTO THE SICK OF THE PALSY), I SAY UNTO THEE, ARISE, AND TAKE UP THY COUCH, AND GO INTO THINE HOUSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IMMEDIATELY HE ROSE UP BEFORE THEM, AND TOOK UP THAT WHEREON HE LAY, AND DEPARTED TO HIS OWN HOUSE, GLORIFYING GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY WERE ALL AMAZED, AND THEY GLORIFIED GOD, AND WERE FILLED WITH FEAR, SAYING, WE HAVE SEEN STRANGE THINGS TODAY. Jesus, in His omniscience, read their thoughts as easily as though they had spoken aloud, and answered in that sense, promptly calling them to account for their condemnation of His... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AFTER THESE THINGS HE WENT FORTH AND SAW A PUBLICAN, NAMED LEVI, SITTING AT THE RECEIPT OF CUSTOM; AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, FOLLOW ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CALL OF LEVI AND THE DISCOURSE CONCERNING CHRIST'S MINISTRY. Luke 5:27 The call and the feast of Levi:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE LEFT ALL, ROSE UP, AND FOLLOWED HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND LEVI MADE HIM A GREAT FEAST IN HIS OWN HOUSE; AND THERE WAS A GREAT COMPANY OF PUBLICANS AND OF OTHERS THAT SAT DOWN WITH THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THEIR SCRIBES AND PHARISEES MURMURED AGAINST HIS DISCIPLES, SAYING, WHY DO YE EAT AND DRINK WITH PUBLICANS AND SINNERS?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS ANSWERING SAID UNTO THEM, THEY THAT ARE WHOLE NEED NOT A PHYSICIAN; BUT THEY THAT ARE SICK.... [ Continue Reading ]
I CAME NOT TO CALL THE RIGHTEOUS, BUT SINNERS, TO REPENTANCE. After the healing of the paralytic Jesus left the house and went out to the seashore. On His way, which probably led along the great caravan road toward Damascus, He passed by the booth of a publican, a tax-collector or customs-inspector,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY SAID UNTO HIM, WHY DO THE DISCIPLES OF JOHN FAST OFTEN, AND MAKE PRAYERS, AND LIKEWISE THE DISCIPLES OF THE PHARISEES, BUT THINE EAT AND DRINK?... [ Continue Reading ]
A question of fasting:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, CAN YE MAKE THE CHILDREN OF THE BRIDE-CHAMBER FAST WHILE THE BRIDEGROOM IS WITH THEM?... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THE DAYS WILL COME WHEN THE BRIDEGROOM SHALL BE TAKEN AWAY FROM THEM, AND THEN SHALL THEY FAST IN THOSE DAYS. The Pharisees had allies, more or less openly, in the disciples of John. Misunderstanding the austere manner of living of their Master and imitating it in a false way, they believed such... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SPAKE ALSO A PARABLE UNTO THEM: NO MAN PUTTETH A PIECE OF A NEW GARMENT UPON AN OLD; IF OTHERWISE, THEN BOTH THE NEW MAKETH A RENT, AND THE PIECE THAT WAS TAKEN OUT OF THE. NEW AGREETH NOT WITH THE OLD.... [ Continue Reading ]
Proverbial sayings:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND NO MAN PUTTETH NEW WINE INTO OLD BOTTLES; ELSE THE NEW WINE WILL BURST THE BOTTLES AND BE SPILLED, AND THE BOTTLES SHALL PERISH.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT NEW WINE MUST BE PUT INTO NEW BOTTLES, AND BOTH ARE PRESERVED.... [ Continue Reading ]
NO MAN ALSO, HAVING DRUNK OLD WINE, STRAIGHTWAY DESIRETH NEW; FOR HE SAITH, THE OLD IS BETTER. Here are three parabolic or proverbial sayings by which the Lord intends to teach the Pharisees a much-needed lesson. It is foolish to take a patch of a new dress and attempt to make it hold a rent in an o... [ Continue Reading ]