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John 21:7

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

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John 21:7. Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved (again John does not mention his own name,) saith unto Peter, It is the Lord.

"It is only he who could spy out the fish, and only he who could fill the net with them; it is just his way of acting, ‘It is the Lord.’" The eyes of true love are very quick. Peter was not the first to recognize Jesus; John was, for he loved him most.

John 21:7. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher’s coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea.

He had such reverence for his Master that he would not appear before him without a sufficient covering, yet he was in a hurry to get to him. Peter always was in a hurry; yet he was grandly impetuous as a rule. I wish that some "slow-coaches" had a little of his pace.

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