Religion & Spirituality
Once when he was standing on the shore of Lake Gennesaret the crowd was pushing in on him to better hear the Word of God He noticed two boats tied up The fishermen had just left them and were out scrubbing their nets He climbed into the boat that was Simon rsquo s and asked him to put out a little from the shore Sitting there using the boat for a pulpit he taught the crowd When he finished teaching he said to Simon ldquo Push out into deep water and let your nets out for a catch rdquo Simon said ldquo Master we rsquo ve been fishing hard all night and haven rsquo t caught even a minnow But if you say so I rsquo ll let out the nets rdquo It was no sooner said than done mdash a huge haul of fish straining the nets past capacity They waved to their partners in the other boat to come help them They filled both boats nearly swamping them with the catch