Luke 5:4-10 ▼

4 And when He left off speaking, He said to Simon, “Put back into the deep, and let down your nets for a catch”;

5 and Simon answering said to Him, “Master, through the whole night, having labored, we have taken nothing, but at Your saying I will let down the net.”

6 And having done this, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes, and their net was breaking,

7 and they beckoned to the partners who [are] in the other boat, having come, to help them; and they came, and filled both the boats, so that they were sinking.

8 And Simon Peter having seen, fell down at the knees of Jesus, saying, “Depart from me, because I am a sinful man, O Lord”;

9 for astonishment seized him, and all those with him, at the catch of the fishes that they took,

10 and in like manner also James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon; and Jesus said to Simon, “Do not fear, from now on you will be catching men”;