ACC ~ John 21 v9 - 10

JESUS EATS TO PROVE THE RESURRECTION

JEROME: Our Lord ate to prove the resurrection, not to give his palate the pleasure of tasting of honey. He asked for a fish broiled on the coals that he might confirm the doubting apostles who did not dare approach him because they thought they saw not a body but a spirit. AGAINST JOHN OF JERUSALEM 34. [1]

[1] NPNF 2 6:442*.

THE FIRSTFRUITS OF THEIR CATCH

CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA: They see a fire of coals, for the Savior had kindled a fire miraculously and put a fish on it that he had caught by his ineffable power. This too he had done by design. For it was not the hand of the holy apostles or the preaching of these spiritual fisherman among the human race that started the work. For he first caught one fish as the firstfruits of those who were to come (not that we mean one precisely, for by one is signified a small number). Then afterward the disciples caught the multitude in their nets, being enabled by his divine bidding to catch what they were fishing for. COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 12.1. [1]

[1] LF 48:699**.