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Selected Verse: Luke 5:2 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Lu 5:2 |
King James |
And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Two ships - The ships used on so small a lake were probably no more than fishing-boats without decks, and easily drawn up on the beach. Josephus says there were 230 of them on the lake, attended by four or five men each. That they were small is also clear from the account commonly given of them. A single large draught of fishes endangered them and came near sinking them.
Standing by the lake - Anchored by the lake, or drawn up upon the beach. |
Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Ships (πλοῖα)
Used of vessels in general. Some texts read πλοιάρια, a diminutive form, meaning little boats.
Were washing
From the sand and pebbles accumulated during the night's work. Luke uses four different words for washing or cleansing: πλύνω, here, see also Rev 7:14; ἀπομάσσω, of wiping the dust from the feet, only at Luk 10:11; ἐκμάσσω, of the woman wiping Christ's feet with her hair, Luk 7:38, Luk 7:44; ἀπολούω, of washing away sins, Act 22:16; λούω, of washing the prisoners' stripes and the body of Dorcas, Act 16:33; Act 9:37. The reading ἀποπλύνω is rejected by the best texts, so that ἀπομάσσω is the only one peculiar to Luke. All the words were common in medical language. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Two ships - Δυο πλοια, Two vessels, It is highly improper to term these ships. They appear to have been only such small boats as are used to manage nets on flat smooth beaches: one end of the net is attached to the shore; the fishermen row out, and drop the net as they go, making a kind of semicircle from the shore; they return, and bring the rope attached to the other end with them, and then the net is hauled on shore; and, as it was sunk with weights to the bottom, and floated with corks at the top, all the fish in that compass were included, and drawn to shore. |
37 And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.
33 And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
16 And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
44 And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
38 And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
11 Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.