Do you think they caught nothing this time?
Ah, if you do, you have not thought what it is to be in the boat with Jesus!
When He commands, He makes it possible for us to obey. You will find that out, children, the more you love and trust Him.
So they let down the net; and now they enclosed such an immense number of fishes that their net began to break, and they were obliged to beckon to their partners, who were in the other ship, to come and help them.
And they filled both of the ships so full that they began to sink.
Then Simon Peter fell down at the feet of Jesus, and told Him that he felt himself to be too sinful to be near Him.
But Jesus never turns away because we are sinful; He comforted Simon Peter with the loving words we so often read in the Bible; He said, "Fear not!"
Then Jesus told Simon that he should be a fisher of men; that meant, that he should draw people into the Kingdom of Heaven.
And when Simon Peter and his partners, James and John, had brought their ships to land, they left everything, and followed Jesus.
And they became, very soon, His three chief disciples; and were privileged to be with Him on the mountain when He was transfigured, and heard God speak from heaven: "This is My beloved Son, hear Him."