Luke 5:4 — Community Reflections

LUKE 5:4 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.”

When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch — the teaching concluded, Jesus turns from the crowd to Simon with a fishing instruction. Put out into deep water (eis to bathos, into the depth) and let down the nets: the instruction runs counter to both the time of day (nets were used at night, not during the day) and the recent failure (they had caught nothing all night). The instruction is a test and an invitation.

Church Fathers on Luke 5:4

Having sufficiently taught the people, He returns again to His mighty works, and by the employment of fishing fishes for His disciples. Hence it follows, When he had left off speaking, he said to Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
Cyril of Alexandria · 5th century

For in His condescension to men, He called the wise men by a star, the fishermen by their art of fishing.
Chrysostom · 4th century

Peter did not refuse to comply, as it follows, And Simon answering said to him, Master, we have toiled all night and have taken nothing. He did not go on to say, “I will not hearken to you, nor expose myself to additional labor,” but rather adds, Nevertheless, at your word I will let down the net. But our Lord, since he had taught the people out of the ship, left not the master of the ship without reward, but conferred on him a double kindness, giving him first a multitude of…
Theophylact · 11th century

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