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Luke 5 — Launch Out Into the Deep, and Let Down Your Nets
Jesus uses Peter's boat to teach the crowd. Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets. Peter — we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net. They take a multitude of fishes; the net brake. Peter falls down — depart from me; for I am a sinful man. From henceforth thou shalt catch men. A leper cleansed; great multitudes follow. A paralytic let down through the roof — thy sins be forgiven thee. Levi the publican called; he leaves all and follows. They that are whole need not a physician. The question about fasting; old garments and new wine.
“And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.”
— Luke 5:5
- v.1-11 The great catch; Peter's call
- v.12-16 The leper cleansed
- v.17-26 The paralytic forgiven
- v.27-32 Levi called
- v.33-39 New wine, new wineskins
The catch did not produce greed; it produced contrition. The glory of Christ exposed Peter's sin. Real encounter with Him always brings the awareness of unworthiness.
Depart from me. The first reaction was to put distance between himself and the holy. Christ's next word — Fear not (v.10) — held him fast. He does not depart from the prostrate sinner; He calls him.
The visible miracle authenticates the invisible one. The healing demonstrates the authority to forgive.
Power upon earth to forgive sins. A claim only God could rightly make. Christ's deity is asserted plainly; the Pharisees' shock is correct as to the magnitude of the claim.
Christ's mission statement to His critics. Not the righteous, but sinners. The self-perceived righteous are not the intended audience. Those who know their need are.
The verse defines who finds Christ. Pharisees missed Him because they did not think they needed Him; publicans found Him because they did.
Verse 5 trains your obedience. Whatever has discouraged you — work, ministry, a relationship where you have toiled all night and taken nothing — let down the net once more at His word. Christ's instruction in the area of your apparent failure is the most fruitful field of your life.
Luke 5 is Christ calling — Peter from the boat, the leper from his isolation, the paralytic from his guilt, Levi from his counter. Each call costs something; each one is met with surrender. The chapter shows His call in different shapes; the Caller is the same Christ summoning every reader to leave and follow.
Nevertheless at thy word. Five words that change the day. Peter knew fishing; Jesus did not have a fisherman's reasons. Yet he obeyed.
The fisherman's expertise yielded to Christ's word. So with every domain in which a believer has earned knowledge — nevertheless at thy word outranks every credential.