Luke 5:1-6 ▼

1 Now it happened that while the crowd was pressing around Him and listening to the word of God, He was standing at the edge of the lake of Gennesaret;

2 and He saw two boats lying at the edge of the lake, and the fishermen, having gotten out of them, were washing their nets.

3 And He got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little way from the land. And He sat down and began teaching the crowds from the boat.

4 And when He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”

5 Simon answered and said, “Master, we labored all night and caught nothing, but at Your word, I will let down the nets.”

6 And when they had done this, they enclosed a great quantity of fish. And their nets began to break;