Luke 5:1

Now it came about that while the multitude was listening to the dvar Hashem and pressing in upon Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, he had been standing beside Lake Kinneret,

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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 Context

2And he saw two sirot (boats) having been beside the lake. But the daiyagim (fishermen) had left them and were cleaning the nets.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 3:17The Aravah also, and Yarden, and the coast thereof, from Kinneret even unto the yam of the Aravah, even the Yam HaMelach (the Salt Sea, the Dead Sea), under the slopes of Pisgah to the east.

Matthew 4:18And walking beside Sea of Galilee (Lake Kinneret), Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach saw two achim, Shim'on, the one being called Kefa (Petros), and his brother Andrew, casting a net into the sea, for they were daiyagim (fishermen).

Matthew 14:34And having crossed over, they came onto the land at Gennesaret.

Mark 3:9And he said to his talmidim that a sirah (boat) should stand ready for him, lest the multitude might crush him.

Mark 6:53And having crossed over onto the land, they came to Gennesaret and anchored.

Luke 12:1Meanwhile, when the multitudes by the thousands assembled, to the point of trampling one another, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said this in a yechidus first to his talmidim, Be shomer regarding the chametz of the Perushim, which is their tzeviut (hypocrisy).

Matthew Henry on Luke 5:1

In this chapter, we have, I. Christ preaching to the people out of Peter's ship, for want of a better pulpit, ver. 1-3 . II. The recompence he made to Peter for the loan of his boat, in a miraculous draught of fishes, by which he intimated to him and his partners his design to make them, as apostles, fishers of men, ver. 4-11 . III. His cleansing the leper, ver. 12-15 . IV. A short account of his private devotion and public ministry, ver. 16, 17 . V. His cure of the man sick of the palsy, ver. 18-26 . VI. His… Read the whole commentary →

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