With fishes (Trav iyIveav). Or, the net of the fishes. So Wye. Rev., full of fishes.
9. They were come to land (dé8ncav eis TH Yi”). Not of the arrival of the boat, but of the going ashore of the boat- men. Rev., therefore, correctly, they got out upon the land.
A fire of coals. Charcoal. See xviii. 18. Fish (dyrdpuov). See on vi. 9. Bread (dprov). Or, a loaf. See on Matt. iv. 1; vii. 9.
10. Of the fish (Trav dapiwv). Asin ver.9. Emphasizing the fish as food.
Ye have caught (émudcare). See on ver. 3. Bengel says: ‘By the Lord’s gift they had caught them: and yet, He cour- teously says, that they have caught them.”
11. Went up. Into the vessel. To land (él ris ys). Strictly, wpon the land.
Great fishes. All authorities agree as to the abundance of fish in the Lake of Galilee. M. Lortet, cited by Dr. Thomson, says that two castings of the net usually filled his boat. Beth- saida (there were two places of that name on the lake) means House of the Fisheries. The fame of the lake in this partic- ular reached back to very early times; so that, according to the Rabbinical legend, one of the ten fundamental laws laid down by Joshua on the division of the country was, that any one might fish with a hook in the Lake of Galilee, so that they did not interfere with the free passage of boats. The Talmud names certain kinds of fish which might be eaten with- out being cooked, and designates them as small fishes. So oyapea is rendered in John vi. 9. Possibly the expression great fishes may imply a contrast with the smadl fishes which swarmed in the lake, and the salting and pickling of which was a special industry among its fishermen.