A New Testament Author:Timothy Brown Subtitle: Or, the New Covenant According to Luke, Paul, and John [consisting of the Greater Part of St. Luke's Gospel and of St. Paul's Epistles; the Acts; and the Book of Revelation. Mainly Tr. by W. Newcome, Ed. by T. Brown]. Publ. in Conformity to the Plan of E. Evanson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1807 N... more »otes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAP. the lake of Gennesaret, and saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and 2 were washing their nets. And he entered into one of 3 the ships, which was Simon's, and besought him that he would launch out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the multitudes out of the ship. 4 And when he had ceased speaking, he said to Simon ; . " Launch out into the deep; and let down your nets 5 " for a draught." And Simon answered and said unto him; " Master, we have laboured during all the night, " and have taken nothing : nevertheless, at thy word I 6 " will let down the net." And when they had done this, . they enclosed a great number of fishes: and their net 7 almost brake. And they beckoned to their partners who were in the other ship, that they might come and help them. And they came, and filled both the ships, 8 so that they almost sank. And when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus's knees, saying; " Depart from 9 "me. Lord, for I am a sinner." For astonishment seized him, and all those that were with him, at the draught 10. of the fishes which they had taken : and in like manner it seized James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon ; 11 " Fear not; henceforth thou shalt catch men." And when they had brought their ships to land,...« less