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Introduction:

-Encourage to follow along (Luke 5:1)

Attempt to cover 11 verses!

Be reading from our Bibles a fair amount.

-Introductory matters before we read:

Most likely a break in chronology

Some disagreement (commentators) on whether:

2nd or 3rd “calling” of these disciples

(very few think it’s the 1st)

Parallels a similar account in Mark and Matthew.

-Solid Commentators on all sides.

What we can be confident in:

Wasn’t Peter and Andrew’s first encounter with Christ.

But, it was one that would leave an indelible mark on their lives.

And, (I believe) that if we too will...

Hear it

Receive it...

…that it will leave such a impression upon ours as well!

Read 1-11

Pray

(5 minutes)

Verse 1:

-As I mentioned in the introduction...

…the way Luke begins verse 1 seems to indicate that he is...

…beginning to describe an event that wasn’t directly connected to the ones that came before.

The ESV reads: “On one occasion.”

The NASB renders it literally as: “Now it happened.”

(a phrase that Luke uses 69 times)

It’s important that we’re aware of this transition...

…because these events may have taken place:

Before that long day in Capernaum (last few weeks)

They do, however, remind us of them in 2 significant ways:

The sense of its setting

The sense of its Christological declarations.

We’ll (of course) look at the setting first:

Luke 5:1 (ESV)

On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret,

-See the immediate similarities:

Still ministering around the Sea of Galilee (Gennesaret = Galilee)

Still being “pressed upon” by the crowds

-But, notice here:

“to hear the WORD OF GOD!”

assumes better-placed priorities

Jesus’ proclamation was the Word of God.

-But, there’s a logistical problem here:

Hard to speak to a large crowd (and be heard)...

...from the middle of it