And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets.
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Gill's Exposition
And saw two ships standing by the lake,.... Or two fishing boats; which were, as the Arabic version renders it, "detained by anchors at the shore of the lake"; the one belonging to Peter and Andrew,…
Barnes' Notes
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…
Adam Clarke
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…
This passage of story fell, in order of time, before the two miracles we had in the close of the foregoing chapter, and is the same with that which was more briefly related by Matthew and Mark, of…
Cambridge Bible
ships Rather, boats (ploiaria).
standing i. e. lying at anchor.
were washing their nets If we combine these notices with those in Mar 1:16-20; Mat 4:18-22, we must suppose that during a discourse of…