5As the crowd was pressing in on Jesus to hear God’s word,^m he was standing by Lake Gennesaret.^B ²He saw two boats at the edge of the lake; the fishermen had left them and were washing their nets. ³He got into one of the boats,^o which belonged to Simon, and asked him to put out a little from the land. Then he sat down and was teaching the crowds from the boat.

⁴When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”^p

⁵“Master,”^q Simon replied, “we’ve worked hard all night long and caught nothing. But if you say so, I’ll let down the nets.”^C

⁶When they did this, they caught a great number of fish, and their nets^C began to tear. ⁷So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them; they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink.

⁸When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’s knees and said, “Go away from me, because I’m a sinful man, Lord!”^r ⁹For he and all those with him were amazed^s at the catch of fish they had taken, ¹⁰and so were James and John, Zebedee’s sons, who were Simon’s partners.

“Don’t be afraid,”^t Jesus told Simon. “From now on you will be catching people.”^u ¹¹Then they brought the boats to land, left everything, and followed him.^v

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Luke 5:5: And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.”

Footnotes

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Cross references

m Mt 4:18–22; Mk 1:16–20; Jn 1:40–42
B Nm 34:11; Dt 3:17; Jos 12:3; 13:27; Mt 4:18
o Mt 13:2; Mk 3:9–10; 4:1
p Jn 21:3–6
q Lk 8:24; 9:33,49; 17:13
r Is 6:5; Lk 19:7
s Lk 4:36; Ac 3:10
t Mt 14:27
u 2Tm 2:26
v Mt 4:20,22; 19:29; Mk 1:18,20; Lk 5:28; 18:43