And he said to them, “Throw the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.”[a] So they threw it,[b] and were no longer able to haul it in from the large number of the fish.

Then that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” So Simon Peter, when he[c] heard that it was the Lord, tied around himself his outer garment (for he was naked)[d] and threw himself into the sea. But the other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net of fish, because they were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits[e] away.

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Footnotes

  1. John 21:6 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  2. John 21:6 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. John 21:7 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
  4. John 21:7 I.e., “he was naked underneath the outer garment,” which he tucked into his belt; alternatively, this could mean “for he was stripped for work”
  5. John 21:8 Approximately 100 yards or 92 meters, based on a cubit of 18 inches.