Luke 5:6

And having done this, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes, and their net was breaking,

Literal Standard Version

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, through the whole night, having labored, we have taken nothing, but at Your saying I will let down the net.”

7and they beckoned to the partners who [are] in the other boat, having come, to help them; and they came, and filled both the boats, so that they were sinking.

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Cross References

2 Kings 4:3And he says, “Go, ask [for] vessels for yourself from outside, from all your neighbors—empty vessels—let [them] not be few;

John 21:6They answered Him, “No”; and He said to them, “Cast the net at the right side of the boat, and you will find [some]”; they cast, therefore, and no longer were they able to draw it, from the multitude of the fishes.

Acts 2:41then those, indeed, who gladly received his word were immersed, and there were added on that day, as it were, three thousand souls,

1 Corinthians 15:58so that, my beloved brothers, become steadfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the LORD at all times, knowing that your labor in the LORD is not vain.

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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