5:1
The NIV heads this section “Jesus calls His first disciples”. However, this may be after Jesus has actually first called Peter, Andrew, James and John (Mark 1:16-19), and John gives a different angles on things (John 1:35-42). This section appears to be a very different occasion to these two. Personally I think they are referring to three different occasions. We tend to think that Jesus called them, and that was it. But the accounts seem to imply Jesus had several meetings with them. And if we look at things on a personal level, how often does God speak to you (through Scripture, a sermon, thoughts etc) once and that is it, you immediately understand and respond. Is it not more common for God to speak to you on several occasions and only gradually do we get the idea?
Anyway, this quite clearly seems a different occasion to the one mentioned in Mark (and Matthew). Luke is only the writer to refer to the Sea of Galilee as Lake Gennesaret. There was a crowd gathered around Jesus listening to His teaching.
5:2,3
The whole tenor of these verses seems to imply that Jesus already knew Peter and the others. The fisherman were washing their nets after an (unsuccessful) nights fishing. Jesus commandeered Peter’s boat and put out a little from the shore so that He could better address the crowds.
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