FISHES THE FOOD OF MAN. 19 



them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, 

 and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and 

 now they were not able to draw it for the mul- 

 titude of fishes. Therefore that disciple whom 

 Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. 



" Now when Simon Peter heard that it was 

 the Lord, he girt his fisher's coat unto him, (for 

 he was naked,) and did cast himself into the 

 sea. And the other disciples came in a little 

 ship, (for they were not far from land, but as 

 it were two hundred cubits,) dragging the net 

 with fishes. As soon then as they were come 

 to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish 

 laid thereon, and bread. Jesus saith unto 

 them, Bring of the fish which ye have now 

 caught. Simon Peter went up, and drew the 

 net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and 

 fifty and three : and for all there were so many, 

 yet was not the net broken." John xxi. 2-11. 



Such were the miracles connected with fish, 

 which Christ wrought, at the honoured sea of 

 Tiberias, the lake of Galilee. Several of his 

 disciples, Simon and Andrew, James and John, 

 the sons of Zebedee, were fishermen. This 

 circumstance is thus commented upon by Izaak 

 Walton : " They that occupy themselves in 

 deep waters, see the wonderful works of God,"* 



* Psa. cvii. 23, 24. 



