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They beckoned (kateneusan). Possibly they were too far away for a call to be understood. Simon alone had been ordered to put out into the deep. So they used signs.
Unto their partners (tois metechois). This word metochos, from metechō, to have with, means participation with one in common blessings (Heb 3:1, Heb 3:14; Heb 6:4; Heb 12:8). While koinōnos (Luk 5:10 here of James and John also) has the notion of personal fellowship, partnership. Both terms are here employed of the two pairs of brothers who have a business company under Simon’s lead.
Help them (sullabesthai). Second aorist middle infinitive. Take hold together with and so to help. Paul uses it in Phi 4:3. It is an old word that was sometimes employed for seizing a prisoner (Luk 22:54) and for conception (con-capio) by a woman (Luk 1:24).
So that they began to sink (hōste buthizesthai auta). Consecutive use of hōste and the infinitive (present tense, inchoative use, beginning to sink). An old verb from buthos. In the N.T. only here and 1Ti 6:9.