Luke 5:27

ἐθεάσατο, instead of εἶδεν. Hahn, appealing to John 1:14; John 4:35; John 11:45, assigns to it the meaning, to look with interest, to let the eye rest on with complacency. But it is doubtful whether in later usage it meant more than to look in order to observe. If the view stated in Mt. on the so-called Matthew's feast (q.v.) be correct, Jesus was on the outlook for a man to assist Him in the Capernaum mission to the publicans. ἐπὶ τὸ τελώνιον, at “the tolbothe,” Wyclif. The tolls collected by Levi may have been either on highway traffic, or on the traffic across the lake. Mk.'s παράγων (Luke 5:14) coming after the reference to the sea (Luke 5:13) points to the latter.