Now when He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into the deep water and (A)let down your nets for a catch.” Simon responded and said, “(B)Master, (C)we worked hard all night and caught nothing, but [a]I will do as You say and let down the nets.” And when they had done this, (D)they caught a great quantity of fish, and their nets began to tear; so they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both of the boats, to the point that they were sinking.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 5:5 Lit upon Your word

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

Simon answered, “Master,(B) we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything.(C) But because you say so, I will let down the nets.”

When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break.(D) So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them, and they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink.

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