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Luk 5:3. Ὃ ἦν, which was) Even then already his privilege of priority was given to Simon. [The other ship was that of Zebedee.-V. g.]-ἠρώτησεν) begged, as being not yet intimate with Him. [It seems that in different cases He used a different way of asking: for instance, Mar 3:9; Luk 19:5; Mat 21:2-3; Mat 26:18. Therefore it is not altogether likely that the call which we read of in Mat 4:18-19, and in Mar 1:16-17, combined with the cure of Peter’s mother-in-law (Mar 1:30; Mat 8:14 : comp. Luk 4:38), was prior to this call of Simon, related here by Luke.[55]-Harm., p. 211.] The Lord does not immediately promise to them the draught of fishes: He first puts to the proof the obedience of Simon.-ἐπαναγαγεῖν) to thrust back again. So Luk 5:4, and Mat 21:18. The prepositions have the same force in ἐπάνειμι, ἐπανέρχομαι, ἐπανήκω, ἐπανακάμπτω, κ.τ.λ. (viz. again, or back again).
[55] Consult, however, Birks’ Horæ Evangelicæ, in which the probability is shown, that the call of Simon, recorded Mat 4:18, Mar 1:16, preceded this call, Luk 5:1, when the Lord, after the first preparatory call, now, at the close of the intervening circuit of Galilee, ch. Luk 4:44, Mat 4:23, by the striking miracle, Luk 5:8-9, draws Simon into closer and more permanent union with Him. The call here comes after, that in Mark and Matt. before, Simon’s mother-in-law is cured. As to the word ἠρώτησεν here, there is nothing in it inconsistent with His having given Simon the preparatory call previously: He asks a favour from Simon, as one already a disciple.-ED. and TRANSL.