John 21:6
Good News Translation
He said to them, "Throw your net out on the right side of the boat, and you will catch some." So they threw the net out and could not pull it back in, because they had caught so many fish.

New Revised Standard Version
He said to them, “Cast the net to the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in because there were so many fish.

Contemporary English Version
So he told them, "Let your net down on the right side of your boat, and you will catch some fish." They did, and the net was so full of fish that they could not drag it up into the boat.

New American Bible
So he said to them, “Cast the net over the right side of the boat and you will find something.” So they cast it, and were not able to pull it in because of the number of fish.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He saith to them: Cast the net on the right side of the ship; and you shall find. They cast therefore: and now they were not able to draw it, for the multitude of fishes.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He saith to them: Cast the net on the right side of the ship; and you shall find. They cast therefore: and now they were not able to draw it, for the multitude of fishes.

Cast.

Matthew 7:27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall thereof.

Luke 5:4-7 Now when he had ceased to speak, he said to Simon: Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a draught. . . .

They cast.

John 2:5 His mother saith to the waiters: Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye.

Psalm 8:8 The birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, that pass through the paths of the sea.

Hebrews 2:6-9 But one in a certain place hath testified, saying: What is man, that thou art mindful of him? Or the son of man, that thou visitest him? . . .

the multitude.

Acts 2:41 They therefore that received his word were baptized: and there were added in that day about three thousand souls.

Acts 4:4 But many of them who had heard the word believed: and the number of the men was made five thousand.

Context
Jesus Appears by the Sea of Tiberias
5Jesus therefore said to them: Children, have you any meat? They answered him: No. 6He saith to them: Cast the net on the right side of the ship; and you shall find. They cast therefore: and now they were not able to draw it, for the multitude of fishes. 7That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter: It is the Lord. Simon Peter, when he heard that it was the Lord, girt his coat about him (for he was naked) and cast himself into the sea.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 47:10
And the fishers shall stand over these waters, from Engaddi even to Engallim there shall be drying of nets: there shall be many sorts of the fishes thereof, as the fishes of the great sea, a very great multitude:

Luke 5:4
Now when he had ceased to speak, he said to Simon: Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a draught.

Luke 5:6
And when they had done this, they enclosed a very great multitude of fishes: and their net broke.

John 21:5
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