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This is the third call. Some believe that Luke 5:1-11 is not a third call but just another eye witness recording of what happened during the second call. But we will see shortly that the events that occurred during the second and third calls are significantly different. The question that we will answer at the end of this study will be: why was there a third call?
Only Luke calls the Sea of Galilee a lake - Lake of Gennesaret. Technically, Luke is correct. It is a lake - not a sea - since the body of water is not connected to the ocean.
. . . and He saw two boats lying at the edge of the lake; but the fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing their nets. (NASB) Luke 5:2 Jesus saw two empty boats at the edge of the water when He arrived. The fishermen were on the shore washing their nets. This is different from the second call where Peter and Andrew were casting nets into the water, and James and John were repairing their nets. But here they are washing their nets. The Greek word for “washing” actually has the idea of “cleaning.” Both were true; they were cleaning the nets by washing them. Maybe they were pulling dead plants and debris out of the nets as they washed them.
Then Jesus got into Simon Peter’s boat and asked him to move the boat away from the land so that He could teach the crowd and use the boat as a pulpit. 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 people from the boat. (NASB) Luke 5:3 When Jesus finished teaching, He commanded Peter to move the boat out into deep water and then start fishing.
When He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.” (NASB) Luke 5:4 Peter Objects. But Peter objected to Jesus’ request.
Simon answered and said, “Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing, but I will do as You say and let down the nets.” (NASB) Luke 5:5 Peter explained that he had been fishing all night and had caught absolutely nothing at all. The gospels tell us that Jesus’ supposed human father was a carpenter (Mark 6:3). But the Greek word was used to refer to craftsmen such as carpenters, masons, or metallurgists. So, we do not know if Jesus’ father was a carpenter, but we do know that he was craftsman. It is most likely that Jesus had learned this trade from His mother Mary’s husband Joseph. But Peter was a fisherman, and Jesus was not. Peter was a professional fisherman. Peter earned his living by fishing, and he was very good at it.
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