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Luke 5:6
And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes; and their net brake.
And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes; and their net brake.
Verse Luke 5:6. _THEIR NET BRAKE._] Or, _began to break_, διερρηγνυτο, or, was _likely_ to be _broken_. Had it _broke_, as our version states, they could have caught no fish. Grammarians give the fol...
THEIR NET BRAKE - Or their net “began” to break, or was “about” to break. This is all that is implied in the Greek word. If their nets had actually “broken,” as our English word seems to suppose, the...
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)...
MULTITUDE. shoal. BRAKE. were beginning to break. Imperfect Tense. Occurances Luke 8:29 and Acts 14:14. Elsewhere only in Matthew 26:65.Mark 14:63
_a great multitude of fishes_ Of this as of all miracles we may say with St Gregory _Dum facit miraculum prodit mysterium_in other words the miracle was an acted parable, of which the significance is...
ΠΛΗ͂ΘΟΣ ἸΧΘΎΩΝ ΠΟΛΎ. Of this—as of all miracles—we may say with St Gregory _Dum facit miraculum prodit mysterium_—in other words the miracle was an acted parable, of which the significance is explaine...
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...
ΠΟΙΉΣΑΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ (G4160) делать, ΣΥΝΈΚΛΕΙΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΓΚΛΕΊΩ (G4788) замыкать, ΙΧΘΎΩΝ _gen. pl._ от ΙΧΘΎΣ (G2486) рыба. Рыба, которую они ловили в сети, — э...
AND THEIR NET BRAKE.— Διερρηγνυτο,— _was breaking,_ or _began to break._ This translation is justified by the words ωστε βυθιζεσθαι αυτα, in the following verse, which without dispute is there properl...
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...
THEIR NET BRAKE. — Better, _their nets were breaking,_ the tense being the imperfect....
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...
διερήσσετο began to break, or were on the point of breaking; on the symbolic theory = the threatened rupture of unity though the success of the Gentile mission (Acts 15)....
_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...
When Christ commanded Peter to let go the net, as great a quantity of fishes were taken as this Lord of the land and sea wished. For the voice of the Lord is the voice of power, at the command of whic...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
(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...
Luke 5:6._They inclosed a great multitude of fishes. _The design of the miracle undoubtedly was, to make known Christ’s divinity, and thus to induce Peter and others to become his disciples. But we ma...
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...
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, we...
And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake. Ver. 6. _And their net brake_] Yet the fishes got not out, which some note for another miracle....
_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 5:6 And G2532 done G4160 (G5660) this G5124 caught G4788 (G5656) great G4183 number G4128 fish...
‘And when they had done this, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes, and their nets were breaking,' We are probably intended to see that Peter was expecting nothing. He was a skilled fisherman, an...
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...
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...
Luke 5:6. HAVING DONE THIS. A number were engaged. WERE BREAKING, _i.e.,_ ‘began to break,' just as in Luke 5:7, ‘were sinking' means ‘began to sink.' The nets did not break, nor the boats sink. God...
THEY INCLOSED (συνεκλεισαν). Effective aorist active indicative with perfective compound συν.THEY SHUT TOGETHER. WERE BREAKING (διερησσετο). Imperfect passive singular (δικτυα being neuter plural...
Luke 5:6 What was the teaching of this miracle for the Apostles and for us? I. To Peter, indeed, and his fellows it was the Divine assurance that henceforth their life was to be spent for Him alone....
Luke 5:5 Obedience to the word of Christ, and the success with which it is crowned. I. Obedience to the word of Christ "Nevertheless at Thy word." It is wise to have authority for every work we under...
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...
THAT THE NETS WERE ABOUT TO BREAK. "The schools of fish in Lake Galilee are things of wonder, black masses hundreds of yards long, as thick as they could pack themselves together, with their black fin...
_And when they had thus done, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes, and the net brake_ THE DESPONDING ENCOURAGED I. IS DISCHARGING THE DUTIES OF LIFE OUR BEST ENDEAVOURS MAY APPEAR FRUITLESS. A...
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...
1 Corinthians 15:58; 2 Kings 4:3; Acts 2:41; Acts 4:4; Ecclesiastes
Their net brake — Began to tear....