John 21:1-14

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21 Later Jesus appeared again to the disciples beside the Lake of Galilee. This is how it happened:

² A group of us were there—Simon Peter, Thomas, “The Twin,” Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, my brother James and I^[a] and two other disciples.

³ Simon Peter said, “I’m going fishing.”

“We’ll come too,” we all said. We did, but caught nothing all night. ⁴ At dawn we saw a man standing on the beach but couldn’t see who he was.

⁵ He called, “Any fish, boys?”^[b]

“No,” we replied.

⁶ Then he said, “Throw out your net on the right-hand side of the boat, and you’ll get plenty of them!” So we did, and couldn’t draw in the net because of the weight of the fish, there were so many!

⁷ Then I^[c] said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” At that, Simon Peter put on his tunic (for he was stripped to the waist) and jumped into the water and swam ashore. ⁸ The rest of us stayed in the boat and pulled the loaded net to the beach, about 300 feet away. ⁹ When we got there, we saw that a fire was kindled and fish were frying over it, and there was bread.

¹⁰ “Bring some of the fish you’ve just caught,” Jesus said. ¹¹ So Simon Peter went out and dragged the net ashore. By his count there were 153 large fish; and yet the net hadn’t torn.

¹² “Now come and have some breakfast!” Jesus said; and none of us dared ask him if he really was the Lord, for we were quite sure of it. ¹³ Then Jesus went around serving us the bread and fish.

¹⁴ This was the third time Jesus had appeared to us since his return from the dead.