Matthew 14:34-36

14:34 After they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret. ¹  14:35 When the people ²  there recognized him, they sent word into all the surrounding area, and they brought all their sick to him. 14:36 They begged him if ³  they could only touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.

Luke 5:1

The Call of the Disciples

5:1 Now ⁴  Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, ⁵  and the crowd was pressing around him ⁶  to hear the word of God.

John 6:24

6:24 So when the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats ⁷  and came to Capernaum ⁸  looking for Jesus.

[14:34]  ¹ sn Gennesaret was a fertile plain south of Capernaum (see also Mark 6:53). The Sea of Galilee was also sometimes known as the Sea of Gennesaret (Luke 5:1).

[14:35]  ² tn Grk “men”; the word here (ἀνήρ, anhr) usually indicates males or husbands, but occasionally is used in a generic sense of people in general, as here (cf. BDAG 79 s.v. 1.a, 2).

[14:36]  ³ tn Grk “asked that they might touch.”

[5:1]  ⁴ tn Grk “Now it happened that.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[5:1]  ⁵ sn The Lake of Gennesaret is another name for the Sea of Galilee. Cf. the parallel in Matt 4:18.

[5:1]  ⁶ sn The image of the crowd pressing around him suggests the people leaning forward to catch Jesus’ every word.

[6:24]  ⁷ tn Or “embarked in the boats.”

[6:24]  ⁸ map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 C3; Map3 B2.