Therefore that disciple The characteristics of the two Apostles are again most delicately yet clearly given (comp. John 20:2-9). S. John is the first to apprehend; S. Peter the first to act [9].

Now when Simon Peter heard Simon Peter therefore having heard.

fisher's coat The Greek word (ependutes) occurs here only. It was his upper garment, which he gathered round him "with instinctive reverence for the presence of his Master" (Westcott). -Naked" need not mean more than -stripped" of the upper garment. "No one but an eye-witness would have thought of the touch in John 21:7, which exactly invertsthe natural action of one about to swim, and yet is quite accounted for by the circumstances." S. p. 267.

cast himself with his habitual impulsiveness.

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