When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”(A)

“Master,”(B) Simon replied, “we’ve worked hard all night long and caught nothing. But if you say so, I’ll let down the nets.”[a]

When they did this, they caught a great number of fish, and their nets[b] began to tear. So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them; they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:5 Other mss read net (Gk sg)
  2. 5:6 Other mss read net (Gk sg)

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