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Luke 5:4
Now when He had left speaking, He said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
Now when He had left speaking, He said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
LAUNCH, OUT - Go out with your vessels. INTO THE DEEP - Into the sea; at a distance from the shore. FOR A DRAUGHT - A draught of fish; or let down your nets for the “taking” of fish....
CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The Miraculous Drought of Fishes. (Luke 5:1)_ 2. The Leper Healed. (Luke 5:12) 3. The Paralytic Healed. (Luke 5:17) 4. The Call of Matthew and the Feast ...
THE CALL OF THE FIRST DISCIPLES (_cf._ Mark 1:16 *, Matthew 4:18 *). The eager crowds that attend Jesus show His need of assistants. The simpler story of Mk. and Mt. is here replaced by one which intr...
Jesus was standing on the shore of the Lake of Gennesaret while the crowds pressed in upon him to listen to the word of God. He saw two boats riding close to the shore. the fishermen had disembarked f...
THE CONDITIONS OF A MIRACLE (Luke 5:1-11)...
WHEN HE HAD LEFT SPEAKING. The Aorist Tense implies the immediate succession of the events. UNTO. Greek. _pros._ App-104. The same word as in Luke 5:10. LAUNCH OUT. Same as "thrust out" in Luke 5:3....
_when he had left speaking_ The aorist implies that no sooner was His sermon ended than He at once thought, not of His own fatigue, but of His poor disappointed followers....
ὩΣ ΔῈ ἘΠΑΎΣΑΤΟ ΛΑΛΩ͂Ν. The aorist implies that no sooner was His sermon ended than He at once thought, not of His own fatigue, but of His poor disappointed followers. ΧΑΛΆΣΑΤΕ, ‘let ye down.’ The fir...
Luke 5:1-11. THE DRAUGHT OF FISHES. THE CALLING OF FOUR DISCIPLES...
Ver 4. Now when he had left speaking, he said to Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. 5. And Simon answering said to him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and ha...
ΈΠΑΎΣΑΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΠΑΎΩ (G3973) прекращать, останавливать, ΛΑΛΏΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΛΑΛΈΩ (G2980) говорить. Part, дополняет гл. ΈΠΑΝΆΓΑΓΕ _praes. imper. act., см._ Luke 5:3. ΧΑΛ...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Challenging Men (Luke 5:1-11) 5 While the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret. 2And he saw two boats by the lake; b...
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, In our exposition of Matthew 4:18, we have shown, as it appears to us, that th...
31-32 Compare Mat_4:13-17; Mar_1:21-22. 31 His rejection in "His own country" led to His making Capernaum "His own city". From this as a base, He circled about on His evangelistic tours, returning th...
MIRACULOUS DRAUGHT OF FISHES. THE PALSIED MAN 1-11. First miraculous draught of fishes (peculiar to Lk). Many critics identify this incident with that recorded in Matthew 4:18 and Mark 1:16. But there...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 5 JESUS CALLS THE FIRST *DISCIPLES 5:1-11 V1 The people crowded round Jesus because they were so eager to hear God’s message. He was standing by the...
LET DOWN YOUR NETS. — It is, perhaps, a slight indication that the narrative of St. Luke does not give the same event as the other Gospels, that they use a different word for “net,” and one that has,...
V. (1-11) AND IT CAME TO PASS... — See Notes on Matthew 4:18. The narrative here has so many points in common with that in St. Matthew and St. Mark (Mark 1:16) that it has been supposed by most commen...
CHAPTER 10 THE CALLING OF THE FOUR. WHEN Peter and his companions had the interview with Jesus by the Jordan, and were summoned to follow Him, it was the designation, rather than the appointment, to...
εἰς τὸ βάθος, into the deep sea, naturally to be found in the centre, inside the shelving bottom stretching inwards from the shore. χαλάσατε. plural, after ἐπανάγαγε, singular; the latter addressed to...
_The call of Peter_. This narrative, brought in later than the corresponding one in Mk., assumes larger dimensions and an altered character. Peter comes to the front, and the other three named in Mk.,...
ἐπικεῖσθαι. In Mt. and Mk. (Matthew 4:18; Mark 1:16) the call of the four disciples took place when Jesus was walking alone. Here Jesus is surrounded by a crowd who pressed upon Him. καὶ ἀκούειν, etc....
NEW CATCHERS OF MEN Luke 5:1-11 Not their first call, recorded in John 1:35-42, but another which preceded their appointment to the apostolate. The Lord always supersedes us. He superseded Peter in...
Four of Jesus' disciples, already called into the relation of discipleship, are here called more definitely to service. Taking command of their vessel, to which in all probability they had returned wi...
Greek: Epanagage eis to bathos. Put back from whence you have just now returned. Where you failed without Christ, with Christ you will prove successful. Now is the proper time, when you act in my pres...
CHAPTER 12 THE MIRACULOUS DRAUGHT OF FISHES Luke 5:1-11. “And it came to pass, while the multitudes were pressing on Him to hear the word of God, and He was standing near the Lake Genesareth [i.e., t...
_a.The Preparation._ In the imperative, _launch out_ (Luke 5:4), Jesus speaks solely to Peter, as director of the embarkation; the order, _let down_, is addressed to all. Peter, the head of the prese...
SECOND CYCLE: FROM THE CALL OF THE FIRST DISCIPLES TO THE CHOICE OF THE TWELVE, LUKE 5:1 TO LUKE 6:11. Up to this time Jesus has been preaching, accompanied by a few friends, but without forming about...
1. _The Call of the Disciples_: Luke 5:1-11. The companions of Jesus, in the preceding scene, have not yet been named by Luke (_they_ besought Him, Luke 4:38; she ministered unto _them_, Luke 4:39). A...
(4) Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. (5) And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and...
The preface of Luke's gospel is as instructive as the introduction of either of the two preceding gospels. It is obvious to any serious reader that we enter a totally different province, though all be...
_LAUNCH OUT!_ ‘Launch out into the deep.’ Luke 5:4 Simon was surprised to receive that command; there are many still who do not seem able at once to respond to it. I. TO WHOM SHOULD THESE WORDS B...
Man, He was come for men. He will associate others (chapter 5) with Himself in this glorious work. He has a right to do it. If He is in grace a servant, He is so according to the full power of the Hol...
NOW WHEN HE HAD LEFT SPEAKING,.... Teaching the people, and preaching the word of God unto them out of the ship, as they stood on the shore before him. HE SAID UNTO SIMON, LAUNCH OUT INTO THE DEEP; h...
Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. Ver. 4. _Let down your nets_] This is the fare he pays them, for the use of their sh...
_As the people pressed upon him_, with great eagerness, _to hear the word of God_ Insomuch that no house could contain them: they perceived Christ's word to be the _word of God_, by the divine power a...
PETER, JAMES AND JOHN CALLED AS DISCIPLES (vs.1-11) It is good to read in verse 1 that by the Lake of Gennesaret (or Sea of Galilee) the people pressed upon the Lord Jesus, not to see miracles, but t...
1-11 When Christ had done preaching, he told Peter to apply to the business of his calling. Time spent on week days in public exercises of religion, need be but little hinderance in time, and may be...
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Luke 5:4 G1161 When G5613 stopped G3973 (G5668) speaking G2980 (G5723) said G2036 (G5627) to...
JESUS REVEALS HIS AUTHORITY OVER BOTH FISH AND FISHERMEN AND CALLS THE FISHERMEN TO FISH MEN (5:1-11) . The first incident in which Jesus' Messianic authority is revealed is in the calling of fisherme...
‘And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.” ' Then when He had finished preaching He turned to Simon Peter and said, “Put out i...
Luke 5:4. SIMON. Evidently the steersman of the boat. PUT OUT INTO THE DEEP, _i.e.,_ the deep water. Luke always uses proper nautical phrases. Addressed in the singular, to Simon. LET DOWN YOUR NE...
TIME. The miraculous draught of fishes took place shortly after the rejection at Nazareth, but _before_ the healing of Simon's mother-in-law (chap. Luke 4:38-39); for at that time these four fishermen...
HAD LEFT SPEAKING (επαυσατο λαλων). He ceased speaking (aorist middle indicative and present active participle, regular Greek idiom).PUT OUT INTO THE DEEP (επαναγαγε εις το βαθος). The same doubl...
Luke 5:1 Fishers of Men. I. This passage reminds us that discipleship comes before apostleship. Peter had been, for at least some months, a docile learner in the school of Christ before he was calle...
Luke 5:1. _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, and saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone ou...
CONTENTS: Miraculous draught of fishes. Healing of a leper and a paralytic. Call of Matthew. The scribes and Pharisees answered. Parables of the garment and bottles. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Simon, Ja...
Luke 5:3. _He sat down, and taught the people out of the ship._ Here he used those beautiful parables, in Matthew 13.; but Matthew's gospel being extant, St. Luke does not repeat the parables in this...
OUT FARTHER TO THE DEEP WATER. Where the fish are. LET YOUR NETS DOWN FOR A CATCH. This is Jesus' promise that they will catch fish. BUT IF YOU say SO. They had worked hard all night without catching...
_Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught_ OUT OF THE DEEP I. RECALL THE HISTORIC EVENT. 1. It is not work that tries men and women, half as much as it is the disappointment w...
CHAPTER 5 VER. 6. _They inclosed a great multitude of fishes_ for Peter had said, "At Thy word I will let down the net." "Behold here the fruit and reward of obedience. Jesus did this 1. In order that...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 5:1. TO HEAR THE WORD OF GOD.—“His preaching in the synagogues had excited so much attention that the people followed Him to the shore of the lake to hear Him” (_Speaker’s Comme...
EXPOSITION When St. Luke compiled his Gospel, many of the circumstances connected with the early relations of the leaders of Christianity with their Founder were so well known, and had been so often r...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Luke's gospel chapter 5. The popularity of the ministry of Jesus is growing. Word is being spread around of the miracles that are being wrought by Him, and now where...
John 21:6; Matthew 17:27...
Launch out. Rev., put out. The singular number, addressed to Peter as master of the craft. Let down [χ α λ α σ α τ ε]. The plural, addressed to the whole of the boat's crew. Originally, to slacken or...
Observe here, 1. Our Saviour having delivered his doctrine to the people, confirms his doctrine with. miracle, and with such. miracle as did at once instruct and encourage his apostles; the miraculous...