Luke 5

Treated in 24 passages across the library.

  • 5:4 When he had finished speaking, he told Simon, "Take the boat out where the water is deep, and lower your nets to catch fish." 6
  • 5:8 When Simon Peter saw this, he threw himself down at Jesus's knees and said, "Lord, leave me! I am a man full of sin." 3
  • 5:16 Yet he kept slipping away to places in the wilderness to pray. 3
  • 5:1 Once, as Jesus stood beside the lake of Gennesaret, the crowd was pushing in around him to hear the word of God. 1
  • 5:5 Simon replied, "Master, we worked hard the whole night through and caught nothing. But on your word I will lower the nets." 1
  • 5:15 But word about Jesus went out farther than ever. Large crowds kept gathering to listen and to be healed of their illnesses. 1
  • 5:17 On one of those days, while he was teaching, some Pharisees and teachers of the law were seated there. They had come from all the villages of Galilee, from Judea, and from Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was present for him to heal. 1
  • 5:19 The crowd left them no way of getting him in. So they climbed up on the roof, took away some of the tiles, and let him down on his bed into the middle of everyone, in front of Jesus. 1
  • 5:22 Jesus was aware of what was going through their minds, and he replied, "Why do you debate this in your hearts? 1
  • 5:26 Everyone was overcome with amazement. They glorified God, and full of awe they said, "What we have seen today is beyond belief!" 1
  • 5:27 Later, Jesus went out and caught sight of a tax collector named Levi, seated at the place where he collected taxes. Jesus told him, "Follow me." 1
  • 5:29 Levi then gave a large feast at his house in honor of Jesus. A big crowd of tax collectors and other people were guests at the table with them. 1
  • 5:31 "People who are well have no use for a doctor," Jesus answered them, "but people who are ill do. 1
  • 5:32 The reason I have come is to call sinners to repentance, not the righteous." 1
  • 5:34 He answered them, "Would you make the guests at a wedding fast while the bridegroom is still among them? 1

Open Word Bible

  1. Tell Me the Story – Book 4: The King Is Born · Ochorus Originals

    Fishers of People cites Luke 5:1–11

    …His friends. The greatest story of all was only just beginning. Read it in your Bible: Luke 5:1–11; Matthew 4:18–22 Dear Jesus, thank you that you call people to follow you, even when they…

  2. Absolute Surrender · Andrew Murray

    Peter's Repentance cites Luke 5:4

    …all night and had caught nothing; but he said: “At thy word I will let down the net” (Luke 5:4, 5). He submitted to the word of Jesus. Further, he was a man of great faith. When he saw…

  3. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.3 The Third Commandment cites Luke 5: 4

    …For example, Christ said to Peter, ‘Launch out into the deep, and make a draught,’ Luke 5: 4. This text was spoken in a plain, literal sense of launching out the ship, but the…

  4. Days of Heaven Upon Earth · A. B. Simpson

    December cites Luke v. 4

    …balm in Gilead, He's the Great Physician there. December 9 “Launch out into the deep” (Luke v. 4). One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit Of…

  5. Days of Heaven Upon Earth · A. B. Simpson

    March cites Luke v. 4

    …a way that the evil does not really touch our life. March 19 “Launch out into the deep” (Luke v. 4). Many difficulties and perplexities in connection with our Christian life might be best…

  6. Our Daily Walk · F. B. Meyer

    April cites Luk 5:4

    …unable to sail at a moment's notice, and to let down their nets at the Master's command (Luk 5:4). “If a man shall cleanse himself.., he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and…

  7. Morning by Morning · Charles H. Spurgeon

    October cites Luke 5:4

    …day long. October 8 “Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.” (Luke 5:4) We learn from this narrative, the necessity of human agency. The draught of fishes was…

  8. Thoughts for the Quiet Hour · Dwight L. Moody

    August cites Luke v. 5

    …and flowers for a heavenly watering.—Spurgeon. August 25 Nevertheless, at thy word. Luke v. 5. Oh, what a blessed formula for us! This path of mine is dark, mysterious, perplexing…

  9. The Bondage of the Will · Martin Luther

    Exordium cites Luke v. 8

    …not to suffer. Or that: where he commanded Christ to depart from him out of the ship. (Luke v. 8.) And many other of those things, for which he was rebuked of Christ. Men of this sort…

  10. Humility · Andrew Murray

    Humility in the Disciples of Jesus cites Luke 5:8

    …So it was with Peter when he cried out, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.” Luke 5:8. So, too, with the disciples when they fell and worshiped Him who had stilled the storm.…

  11. Holiness · J. C. Ryle

    Growth cites Luke v. 8

    …am a sinful man, O Lord.” Job xl. 4; Gen. xviii. 27; xxxii. 10; Ps. xxii. 6; Isa. vi. 5; Luke v. 8.) The nearer he draws to God, and the more he sees of God’s holiness and perfection, the…

  12. How to Pray · R. A. Torrey

    When to Pray cites Luke 5:15

    …that thronged about Him, and go into the wilderness and pray. For example, we read in Luke 5:15,16, “But so much the more went abroad the report concerning Him: and great multitudes…

  13. Anchored – 30 Days with God for Teens – Book 1 · Ochorus Originals

    Day 28 — Prayer When It’s Boring cites Luke 5:16

    …Himself often had no private room, so He “frequently withdrew to the wilderness to pray” (Luke 5:16). Your inner room might be a walk to school, a bench at the edge of the field, the roof…

  14. The Key Teachings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer · Ochorus Originals

    The Day Alone cites LUKE 5:16

    …God gives through a brother. And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed. LUKE 5:16 Silence The day alone begins with silence. Bonhoeffer did not mean an empty silence, or…

  15. Real Questions – Book 3 · Ochorus Originals

    Why Pray If God Already Knows Everything? cites Luke 5:16

    …solitary place to pray” (Mark 1:35). “He frequently withdrew to the wilderness to pray” (Luke 5:16). He prayed before choosing His disciples, at the grave of His friend, in the garden, on…

  16. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 3, Chapter 4 — Penitence, as Explained in the Sophistical Jargon of the Schoolmen, Widely Different from the Purity Required by the Gospel cites Luke 5:17

    …and offer for thy cleansing according as Moses commanded for a testimony unto them.” (Luke 5:17). And assuredly this miracle would be a testimony to them: they had pronounced them…

  17. Morning by Morning · Charles H. Spurgeon

    September cites Luke 5:19

    …where Jesus is by ordinary methods we must use extraordinary ones. It seems, according to Luke 5:19, that a tiling had to be removed, which would make dust and cause a measure of danger to…

  18. The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith · R. A. Torrey

    The Deity of Jesus Christ cites Luke 5:22

    …that He knew the secret thoughts of men, knew all men, knew what was in man (Mark 2:8; Luke 5:22; John 2:24, 25) which knowledge we are distinctly told in 2 Chron. 6:30 and Jer. 17:9…

  19. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    X. Nothing can be certainly known of the nature of religious affections by this, that they much dispose persons with their mouths to praise and glorify God cites Luke 5:26

    …amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion.” So Matt. 9:8, and Luke 5:26. Also Matt. 15:31, “Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to…

  20. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    XII. Gracious and holy affections have their exercise and fruit in Christian practice cites Luke 5:27

    …manifested, and made perfect by his actually rising up, leaving all, and following him, Luke 5:27, 28. Christ, and other things, are set before us together, for us particularly to cleave…

  21. Old Paths · J. C. Ryle

    Conversion cites Luke v. 29

    …that “he made a great feast in his own house,” as if it was an occasion of gladness. (Luke v. 29.) Let us hear what Zacchæus the publican felt, when Jesus offered to come to his house.…

  22. Real Questions – Book 2 · Ochorus Originals

    Why Are Christians Such Hypocrites? cites Luke 5:31

    …time with sinners, He said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick” (Luke 5:31). Complaining that the church is full of sinners is a bit like complaining that a…

  23. Practical Religion · J. C. Ryle

    Prayer cites Luke v. 32

    …sinners. He says Himself, "I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." (Luke v. 32.) Wait not, because you feel unworthy. Wait for nothing: wait for nobody. Waiting comes…

  24. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 4, Chapter 12 — Of the Discipline of the Church, and Its Principal Use in Censures and Excommunication cites Luke 5:34

    …mourning. “The days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken from them” (Mt. 9:35; Luke 5:34). 18. But that there maybe no error in the name, let us define what fasting is; for we do…