LESSON XLVIII.
THE DINNER.
John, xxi. 1-19.
Jesus told his disciples to go a great way into the country, and he said, I will come and see you again. So the disciples went away from Jerusalem, and they went into the country. They came to the place where they had once lived, by the water side. They had some ships on the water, and they used to catch fish when they were in the ships.
One night Peter said to the disciples, I shall go and fish; and the disciples said, We will go with you. So they got into a ship, and all night long they tried to catch fish, but they could not catch any.
In the morning they were tired and hungry. They looked up, and saw a man standing near the water side. They did not know who the man was.
The man called out to them and said, Children, have you anything to eat?
The poor disciples said, No; for they had caught no fish all night.
The man said, Let down your net on the right side of the ship, and you shall find some fish.
They did as the man told them, and they caught such a number of fishes in the net, that they could hardly lift it out of the water.
Now John found out who the man was: he said to Peter, It is the Lord.