Luke 5:1-3

Contemporary English Version

Jesus Chooses His First Disciples

(Matthew 4.18-22; Mark 1.16-20)

5 ^(A) Jesus was standing on the shore of Lake Gennesaret,^[a] teaching the people as they crowded around him to hear God's message. ² Near the shore he saw two boats left there by some fishermen who had gone to wash their nets. ³ Jesus got into the boat that belonged to Simon and asked him to row it out a little way from the shore. Then Jesus sat down^[b] in the boat to teach the crowd.