Jesus says to them, "Children! Do you have any food? [1061] They say to him, "No."

And he said to them, "Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will catch it." (John 21:5-6.)

All this had already happened once: just as He will say now, He said to Simon:

Sail into the depths, and cast your nets;

And Simon answered Him in the same way,

Rabbi! we toiled all night, and caught nothing: but according to thy word, I will cast the net.

When they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish, and even their nets were broken.

… And they filled both boats, so that they began to sink.

… And Simon Peter fell down on his knees, and said, Depart from me, O Lord, for I am a sinful man.

For terror seized him and all who were with him from this fishing. (Luke 5:4-9.)

All this was once, in time, and will always be, in eternity.

XI

And he said to them, "Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will catch it."

They cast and could no longer pull out (the nets) from the multitude of fish.

Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "This is the Lord."

And when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girded himself with a garment, for he was naked, and threw himself into the lake.

The naga must have been because he was ready to jump into the water to free the nets from the stones, but he girded himself with clothes in order to appear to the Lord in a decent form. [1062]

The other disciples came in a boat (for they were not far from the shore, about two hundred cubits), dragging a net with fish. And when they came ashore, they saw a fire lit and fish and bread lying on it.

All this was once, in time, and will always be, in eternity.

"On April 9, 1913," recalls one traveler, a seeker of the Lord's footprints on St. Returning in a boat from Bethsaida, we landed on the shore, not far from the Seven Keys, where our boatmen caught two fish with their hands in a muddy pool, and, while we were going to Capernaum, made a fire on the shore rocks, and, letting it burn out, baked the fish in the heat of the coals, and when we returned, they offered us to taste it; The fish smelled a little of smoke, but it was edible. Thus we saw what John remembers." [1063]

Jesus says to the disciples, "Bring the fish that you have now caught."