Signs of Authority in the Gospel of John - Part 6

GO FISH

We are sons of God with power just like Jesus Christ. During this third appearance to some of the disciples, Jesus appears to them on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, having already made a fire and cooked some fish. By following his instructions, they catch a huge load of 153 large fish and while dragging it to the shore, the net does not break. The number is explained in many ways, but the best explanation is that it is a very large unknown number and indicates abundance. It represents the abundant number of people that the disciples would catch starting after the day of Pentecost.

Jesus then has a discourse with Peter about feeding his sheep. He does not berate Peter in any way but gives him a chance to choose to follow him and become a fisherman of men. The answers Peter gives negates his three denials and from that point on he becomes a shepherd leader and minister of reconciliation.

2 Cointhians 5:17-21 APNT

Everyone who is in Christ is therefore a new creation. Old [things] have passed away
18 and everything has become new from God, who reconciled us to himself in Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.
19 For God was in Christ, the one who reconciled the world with his majesty and did not count to them their sins. And he placed in us the word of reconciliation.
20 Therefore, we are ambassadors on behalf of Christ and [it is] as if God were begging you by way of us on behalf of Christ. Therefore, we beg [you], "Be reconciled to God."
21 For that one who had not known sin, he has made [to be] sin on your account, that we would become the justification of God in him.