Such was the hunger for the word of God that the people, listening to Jesus, ‘pressed about him’ (v. 1), and he had to teach them from a boat! The Lord then instructed Simon (‘Peter’) to ‘launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch’ (v. 4). This may have seemed foolish to the fisherman, since the best time for catching fish—the night—had passed and there were no fish to show for it. Yet Simon submitted: ‘Nevertheless at your word