Luke 5:1

Now it happened, while the people were crowding around Jesus and listening to the word of God, that he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.

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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

2He saw two boats pulled up by the edge of the lake. The fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing their nets.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 3:17Another of its borders is also the plain of the Jordan River valley, from Kinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (that is, the Salt Sea) to the slopes of Mount Pisgah eastward.

Matthew 4:18As he was walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.

Matthew 14:34When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret.

Mark 3:9He asked his disciples to have a small boat ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him.

Mark 6:53When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and anchored the boat.

Luke 12:1In the meantime, when many thousands of the people were gathered together, so much that they trampled on each other, he began to say to his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is 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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