Questions about Luke 5:1-10?

Question

Hello All! During our Bible study sessions, we like to take a passage from Scripture and expound upon it. So, don't use these questions as a right/wrong point of view, but rather ways to enrich your faith.

1. How does Peter catching nothing all night relate to you? Are there times when you work hard at something, with no results?
2. Why do you think Jesus preached from the boat? Are there negative people in your life that you sometimes have to get away from?
3. In John 21, Peter goes back to fishing? Is that how we are, when something fails? Do we revert back to what works for us?

Answer 1

1. I think it relates to me because sometimes nothing happens when I pray about it and I begin to lose a little faith at times. Even when I work hard. But then I realized that God is good and wants to make us stronger through our trials and will help us through the storms.
2. I think he may have taken them out on the boat because it was secluded and offered no distractions for the men. Their full attention was on Jesus. (I probably don't really know the answer to this one...but I'll keep chewing on it).
3. I think that very much. And not just what works for us, but on a deeper level like sin (even though it doesn't work for us)...it's just a lot easier and a lot less trying.


Thanks! That was a great question, God bless you!

Answer 2

1. Nope! If I work hard with no result I don't stop till I get the results I want.

2. Jesus preached from the boat because he was being crowded and the boat kept the ppl at bay. (no pun intended)

3. He did what Jesus told him to do. That's how things worked for the best.

Being analitical about the verses is O.K., but sometime the is more to learn from the face value of the verses. Simplicity is easy to digest.

Answer 3

1-Christ wanted the fishers of fish to become fishers of men. There is a lot of symbolism here. Have you ever witnessed for a whole day and led no one to the Lord. You get up the next day and "go fishing"
2-The crowds were pressing. People wanted to touch Him, as some did and were healed. His mission was to preach and he needed to be in a position to do so at that particular time.
3-Peter had a lot to think about and he could not do that where he was, he needed to "get away" we all need that from time to time and he knew that he could best think over the events of his life doing something that was easy because it was familiar to him. As Christians, we are not perfect, but we are forgiven.

Answer 4

In all these thigns Jesus was working to stretch Peter and make him a monument of glory to God... it;s like the story of Ruth, Naomi thought the tough things God was against her but all along God was totally for he and weaving a wonderful story and using Ruth and Naomi to become monuments of glory to him although the stetching at times was not comfortable... this is what happens to us... we get stretched...God gets glory


actually ...Jesus is the one who was fishing... and he was after making Peter into an object of glory ... and he does it to us also

1) sometimes God brings you to the end of your rope and frustration before doing someonething ... or to help you appreciate him more. No fish all night. Caught a ton of fish when he let down the net at Jesus request

2) Jesus preached from the boat to related to Peter and his friends

3) After Jesus rose from the dead similar story. Peter goes back to fishin prob cuz he was depressed and felt he failed he did know Jesus rose. and Jesus used it to help him catch a ton of fish again and restored Peter shortly after Jesus cooks a fish breakfast and spends time with 7 disciples... how cool is that...
at the beach breakfast thing

Jesus made peter a fisher of men... but the first he hooked Peter and realed him in

Answer 5

Peter didn't have the faith that he would catch anything...Jesus preached from the boat in order to distance himself and speak to a larger crowd

Answer 6

Luke 5.1-10

"And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret, And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing [their] nets. And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship.

Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. 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. And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake.

And they beckoned unto [their] partners, which were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came, and filled both the ships, so that they began to sink. When Simon Peter saw [it], he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.

For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken: And so [was] also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men."

Rkrmw, looking at the text in the context that God did everything on purpose when He walked the earth, Lake Genneseret was the site God knew that three of His chosen disciples would be working the night before, so He purposely went to that location to go into the boat to teach the word of God from the water; which was also a natural ampitheater with which to project His voice.

Peter, James, and John also heard His teaching.

The fact that Peter, James, and John caught nothing was by design; so that when God caused the abundance of fish to fill the net all at once, they would believe, and join Him.

Answer 7

Peter catching nothing relates to just about every area of my life.