Commentaries:Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
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John 21:8
In the little boat (tw ploiariw). Locative case of ploiarion (diminutive) for the larger boat (ploion, verses John 21:3, John 21:6) could come no closer to shore. But the words seem interchangeable in John 6:17, John 6:19, John 6:21-22, John 6:24.
About two hundred cubits off (wv apo phxwn diakosiwn). For phxuv, cubit, see Matthew 6:27 and for wv apo see John 11:18.
Dragging (surontev). Present active participle of surw for which see Acts 8:3.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 21:8:
John 11:18
Acts 1:5
Revelation 12:4
Revelation 14:20
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