João 21

Jesus appeared to seven disciples and enabled them miraculously to catch a lot of fish.

1 After that, Jesus showed himself to us disciples when we were at Tiberias Lake, which is another name for Galilee Lake. This is what happened: 2 Simon Peter, Thomas who was called {whom we called} The Twin, Nathaniel from Cana town in Galilee, my older brother and I, and two other disciples were together. 3 Simon Peter said to us, "I am going to try to catch some fish." We said, "We will go with you." So we went down to the lake and got into the boat. But that night we caught nothing. 4 Early the next morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but we did not know that it was Jesus. 5 He called out to us, "My friends, you have not caught any fish, have you?" We answered, "You are correct, we have not caught any." 6 He said to us, "Throw your net out from the right-hand side of the boat! Then you will find some!" We did that, and we caught so many fish in the net that we were unable to pull the net into the boat! 7 But I knew that it was Jesus, so I said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" Peter had taken off his cloak while he was working, but as soon as he heard me say "It is the Lord!" he wrapped his cloak around himself and jumped into the water and swam to shore. 8 The rest of us came to the shore in the boat, pulling the net full of fish. We were not far from shore, only about 100 yards/meters. 9 When we got to the shore, we saw that there was a fire of burning coals there, with a large fish on the fire, and some buns. 10 Jesus said to us, "Bring some of the fish that you have just caught!" 11 Simon Peter got in the boat and dragged the net to the shore. It was full of large fish. There were 153 of them! But in spite of there being so many fish, the net was not torn.