Luke 5:6

And having done this, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes. And their net broke.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake.

In Context

5And Simon answering said to him, Master, having laboured through the whole night we have taken nothing, but at thy word I will let down the net.

7And they beckoned to their partners who were in the other ship to come and help them, and they came, and filled both the ships, so that they were sinking.

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Cross References

2 Kings 4:3And he said, Go, borrow for thyself vessels abroad from all thy neighbours, empty vessels; let it not be few;

John 21:6And he said to them, Cast the net at the right side of the ship and ye will find. They cast therefore, and they could no longer draw it, from the multitude of fishes.

Acts 2:41Those then who had accepted his word were baptised; and there were added in that day about three thousand souls.

1 Corinthians 15:58So then, my beloved brethren, be firm, immovable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in [the] Lord.

Matthew Henry on Luke 5:2-12

The Call of Peter, James, and John. 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, 2 And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets. 3 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. 4 Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into… Read the whole commentary →

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