Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Children—This term would not necessarily identify Him, being not unusual from any superior; but when they did recognize Him, they would feel it sweetly like Himself.
have ye any meat?—provisions, supplies, meaning fish.
They answered . . . No—This was in His wonted style, making them tell their case, and so the better prepare them for what was coming.
Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing—(See on Luke 5:11).
that night . . . caught nothing—as at the first miraculous draught (see on Luke 5:5); no doubt so ordered that the miracle might strike them the more by contrast. The same principle is seen in operation throughout much of Christ's ministry, and is indeed a great law of God's spiritual procedure with His people.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing John 21:5:
Luke 18:24
1 John 2:12
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