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Selected Verse: John 21:3 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Joh 21:3 |
King James |
Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing--(See on Luk 5:11).
that night . . . caught nothing--as at the first miraculous draught (see on Luk 5:5); no doubt so ordered that the miracle might strike them the more by contrast. The same principle is seen in operation throughout much of Christ's ministry, and is indeed a great law of God's spiritual procedure with His people. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| That night they caught nothing - This was so ordered in the providence of God that the miracle which was performed might appear more remarkable. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
I go
Contrast (Num 9:17-23). |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
A ship (τὸ πλοῖον)
Rev., the boat; restoring the article, which indicates a familiar implement. See on Luk 5:2.
Immediately
Omit.
That night
The emphatic pronoun that (ἐκείνῃ) may indicate that their ill success was unusual.
Caught (ἐπίασαν)
So Joh 21:10. The verb means to lay hold of, and is nowhere else used in the New Testament of taking fish. Elsewhere in this Gospel always of the seizure of Christ by the authorities (Joh 7:30, Joh 7:39, Joh 7:44; Joh 8:20; Joh 10:39; Joh 11:57). Of apprehending Peter and Paul (Act 12:4; Co2 11:32). Of the taking of the beast (Rev 19:20). Of taking by the hand (Act 3:7). |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Peter saith - I go a fishing - Previously to the crucifixion of our Lord, the temporal necessities of himself and his disciples appear to have been supplied by the charity of individuals: Luk 8:3. As it is probable that the scandal of the cross had now shut up this source of support, the disciples, not fully knowing how they were to be employed, purposed to return to their former occupation of fishing, in order to gain a livelihood; and therefore the seven, mentioned Joh 21:2, embarked on the sea of Tiberias, otherwise called the sea of Galilee.
That night they caught nothing - God had so ordered it, that they might be the more struck with the miracle which he afterwards wrought. |
5 And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.
11 And when they had brought their ships to land, they forsook all, and followed him.
17 And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.
18 At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents.
19 And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not.
20 And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed.
21 And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
22 Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
23 At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
7 And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.
20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
4 And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.
57 Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.
39 Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,
20 These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.
44 And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.
39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
30 Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.
10 Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have now caught.
2 And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets.
2 There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples.
3 And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.