Leviticus 26:10

26:10 You will still be eating stored produce from the previous year ¹  and will have to clean out what is stored from the previous year to make room for new. ² 

Leviticus 26:2

26:2 You must keep my Sabbaths and reverence ³  my sanctuary. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 1:10

Animal from the Flock

1:10 “‘If his offering is from the flock for a burnt offering ⁴  – from the sheep or the goats – he must present a flawless male,

Luke 5:6-7

5:6 When ⁵  they had done this, they caught so many fish that their nets started to tear. ⁶  5:7 So ⁷  they motioned ⁸  to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both boats, so that they were about to sink. ⁹ 

Luke 12:16-17

12:16 He then ¹⁰  told them a parable: ¹¹  “The land of a certain rich man produced ¹²  an abundant crop, 12:17 so ¹³  he thought to himself, ¹⁴  ‘What should I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ ¹⁵ 

John 21:6-11

21:6 He told them, “Throw your net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” ¹⁶  So they threw the net, ¹⁷  and were not able to pull it in because of the large number of fish.

21:7 Then the disciple whom ¹⁸  Jesus loved ¹⁹  said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” So Simon Peter, when he heard that it was the Lord, tucked in his outer garment (for he had nothing on underneath it), ²⁰  and plunged ²¹  into the sea. 21:8 Meanwhile the other disciples came with the boat, dragging the net full of fish, for they were not far from land, only about a hundred yards. ²² 

21:9 When they got out on the beach, ²³  they saw a charcoal fire ready ²⁴  with a fish placed on it, and bread. 21:10 Jesus said, ²⁵  “Bring some of the fish you have just now caught.” 21:11 So Simon Peter went aboard and pulled the net to shore. It was ²⁶  full of large fish, one hundred fifty-three, ²⁷  but although there were so many, the net was not torn.

[26:10]  ¹ tn Heb “old [produce] growing old.”

[26:10]  ² tn Heb “and old from the presence of new you will bring out.”

[26:2]  ³ tn Heb “and my sanctuary you shall fear.” Cf. NCV “respect”; CEV “honor.”

[1:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “And if from the flock is his offering, from the sheep or from the goats, for a burnt offering.” Here “flock” specifies the broad category, with “sheep or goats” giving specific examples.

[5:6]  ⁵ tn Grk “And when.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[5:6]  ⁶ tn In context, this imperfect verb is best taken as an ingressive imperfect (BDF §338.1).

[5:7]  ⁷ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate consequential nature of the action.

[5:7]  ⁸ tn That is, “they signaled by making gestures” (L&N 33.485).

[5:7]  ⁹ tn This infinitive conveys the idea that the boats were at the point of sinking.

[12:16]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “And he.” Here δέ (de) has been translated as “then” to indicate the connection to the preceding statement.

[12:16]  ¹¹ tn Grk “a parable, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated here.

[12:16]  ¹² tn Or “yielded a plentiful harvest.”

[12:17]  ¹³ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate that this is a result of the preceding statement.

[12:17]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “to himself, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated here.

[12:17]  ¹⁵ sn I have nowhere to store my crops. The thinking here is prudent in terms of recognizing the problem. The issue in the parable will be the rich man’s solution, particularly the arrogance reflected in v. 19.

[21:6]  ¹⁶ tn The word “some” is not in the Greek text but is implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.

[21:6]  ¹⁷ tn The words “the net” are not in the Greek text but are implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.

[21:7]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “the disciple, that one whom.”

[21:7]  ¹⁹ sn On the disciple whom Jesus loved see 13:23-26.

[21:7]  ²⁰ tn Grk “for he was naked.” Peter’s behavior here has been puzzling to many interpreters. It is usually understood that the Greek word γυμνός (gumnos, usually translated “naked”) does not refer to complete nudity (as it could), since this would have been offensive to Jewish sensibilities in this historical context. It is thus commonly understood to mean “stripped for work” here (cf. NASB, NLT), that is, with one’s outer clothing removed, and Peter was wearing either a loincloth or a loose-fitting tunic (a long shirt-like garment worn under a cloak, cf. NAB, “for he was lightly clad”). Believing himself inadequately dressed to greet the Lord, Peter threw his outer garment around himself and dived into the sea. C. K. Barrett (St. John, 580-81) offered the explanation that a greeting was a religious act and thus could not be performed unless one was clothed. This still leaves the improbable picture of a person with much experience around the water putting on his outer garment before diving in. R. E. Brown’s suggestion (John [AB], 2:1072) seems much more probable here: The Greek verb used (διαζώννυμι, diazwnnumi) does not necessarily mean putting clothing on, but rather tying the clothing around oneself (the same verb is used in 13:4-5 of Jesus tying the towel around himself). The statement that Peter was “naked” could just as well mean that he was naked underneath the outer garment, and thus could not take it off before jumping into the water. But he did pause to tuck it up and tie it with the girdle before jumping in, to allow himself more freedom of movement. Thus the clause that states Peter was naked is explanatory (note the use of for), explaining why Peter girded up his outer garment rather than taking it off – he had nothing on underneath it and so could not remove it.

[21:7]  ²¹ tn Grk “threw himself.”

[21:8]  ²² tn Or “about a hundred meters”; Grk “about two hundred cubits.” According to BDAG 812 s.v., a πῆχυς (phcu") was about 18 inches or .462 meters, so two hundred πηχῶν (phcwn) would be about 100 yards (92.4 meters).

[21:9]  ²³ tn The words “on the beach” are not in the Greek text but are implied.

[21:9]  ²⁴ tn Grk “placed,” “laid.”

[21:10]  ²⁵ tn Grk “said to them.”

[21:11]  ²⁶ tn The words “It was” are not in the Greek text. Here a new sentence was begun in the translation in keeping with the tendency of contemporary English style to use shorter sentences. For this reason the words “It was” had to be supplied.

[21:11]  ²⁷ sn Here the author makes two further points about the catch of fish: (1) there were one hundred fifty-three large fish in the net, and (2) even with so many, the net was not torn. Many symbolic interpretations have been proposed for both points (unity, especially, in the case of the second), but the reader is given no explicit clarification in the text itself. It seems better not to speculate here, but to see these details as indicative of an eyewitness account. Both are the sort of thing that would remain in the mind of a person who had witnessed them firsthand. For a summary of the symbolic interpretations proposed for the number of fish in the net, see R. E. Brown (John [AB], 2:1074-75), where a number are discussed at length. Perhaps the reader is simply to understand this as the abundance which results from obedience to Jesus, much as with the amount of wine generated in the water jars in Cana at the beginning of Jesus’ public ministry (2:6).