‘And when they had done this, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes, and their nets were breaking,'

We are probably intended to see that Peter was expecting nothing. He was a skilled fisherman, and he knew his fish. But he also respected Jesus and so he and Andrew, with their men, did as He bade them. And it was then that to their utter astonishment they discovered that their nets were so full that they were breaking, although not to a point where they lost many fish. It seemed incredible. They had taken a great multitude of fish.

No explanation is given. But we are left with the impression that it was out of the ordinary, either by prophetic insight or by a divine herding of fish.

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