Breakfast on the Beach
I shared this in our personal newsletters, The Northern Pearl, but i thought I would post it here too: I’ve really been enjoying John 20-21 to Acts 1-2 with the disciples lately. After Jesus death and resurrection, it was like a limbo time for the disciples. We know they stayed together in Jerusalem. We know they went back to fishing. Or at least made one attempt to go back because Jesus finds them in a boat, in the water, fishless. So Jesus shows up and one hundred and fifty three fish later, they are eating breakfast with Jesus on the beach who was already cooking fish and bread that seemed to have come from out of thin air. My favorite verse at the moment is verse 11 of John 21 - in verse 10 Jesus had just asked the disciples to bring over some of the fish they caught - verse 11 reads “So Simon Peter got up and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish - 153 of them….” Y’all - Peter is hysterical- - get the whole picture here- Peter - wringing wet because he just swam about 100...
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