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1 | Fisherman casting nets in the sea | Mark 1:16 | Makarios | 225319 | ||
Fisherman casting nets in the sea Mark 1:16-20 "There were many fishermen in Galilee. Josephus, who, for a time, was governor of Galilee, and who is the great historian of the Jews, tells us that in his days three hundred and thirty fishing boats sailed the waters of the lake. Ordinary people in Palestine seldom ate meat; usually they ate it not more than once a week. Fish was their staple diet (Luke 11:11; Matthew 7:10; Mark 6:30-44; Luke 24:42). Usually the fish was salt fish because there was no means of transporting fresh fish. Fresh fish was one of the greatest of all delicacies in the great cities like Rome. The very names of the towns on the lakeside show how important the fishing business was. Bethsaida means House of Fish; Tarichaea, another of the lake-side towns, means The Place of Salt Fish, and it was there that the fish were preserved for export to Jerusalem and even to Rome itself. The salt fish industry was big business in Galilee. "The fisherman used two kinds of nets, both of which are mentioned or implied in the gospels. They used the net called the sagene. This was a kind of seine- or trawl-net. It was let out from the end of the boat. It was so weighted that it stood, as it were, upright in the water. The boat then moved forward, and, as it moved, the four corners of the net were drawn together, so that the net became like a great bag which was drawn through the water, thus enclosing the fish. The other kind of net, the net which Peter and Andrew were using here, was called the amphiblestron. It was a much smaller net. It was skillfully cast into the water by hand. It was shaped rather like an umbrella, and as it was drawn through the water it caught and enclosed the fish." (pages 18-19 of The Gospel of Mark, William Barclay, cp. 1956 The Westminster Press, Philadelphia, Library of Congress Catalog Card No.: 57-6029) --Makarios |
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