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I recently read John 21, one of my favorite chapters, about which I’ve written before in a blog entitled Last Lessons<\/a>. It’s worth reading the blog if only to see the beautiful way an artist captured the main points. This time I saw remarkable parallels between the fishing story in John 21 and the one recorded in Luke 5. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s how they start:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon\u2019s, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat. And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, \u201cPut out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.\u201d And Simon answered, \u201cMaster, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.\u201d (Luke 5.1 – 5, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After this Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias, and he revealed himself in this way. Simon Peter, Thomas (called the Twin), Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together. Simon Peter said to them, \u201cI am going fishing.\u201d They said to him, \u201cWe will go with you.\u201d They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. (John 21.1 – 3, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can read both stories in their entirety in Luke 5.1 – 11<\/a> and John 21.1 – 22<\/a>. Here’s what I saw:<\/p>\n\n\n\n