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The last breakfast ~ The morning meal
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The last breakfast The morning meal |
John 21:1-25 – JB Phillips Science & Health Atonement & Eucharist 34:29 |
THE APPEARANCES OF JESUS - Concluded The risen Jesus and Peter John 21:1-14 - Later on (after Jesus had appeared to "doubting" Thomas), Jesus showed himself again to his disciples on the shore of Lake Tiberias (the Sea of Galilee), and he did it in this way. Simon Peter, Thomas (called the Twin), Nathanael (also known as Bartholomew) from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee (James and John) and two other disciples were together, when Simon Peter said, "I'm going fishing." "All right," they replied, "we'll go with you." So they went out and got into the boat and during the night caught nothing at all. But just as dawn began to break, Jesus stood there on the beach, although the disciples had no idea that it was Jesus. "Have you caught anything, lads?" Jesus called out to them. "No," they replied. "Throw the net on the right side of the boat," said Jesus, "and you'll have a catch." So they threw out the net and found that they were now not strong enough to pull |
it in because it was so full of fish! At this, the disciple that Jesus loved (John) said to Peter, "It is the Lord!"
Hearing this, Peter slipped on his clothes, for he had been naked, and plunged into the sea The other disciples followed in the boat, for they were only about a hundred yards from the shore, dragging in the net full of fish. When they had landed, they saw that a charcoal fire was burning, with a fish placed on it, and some bread. Jesus said to them, "Bring me some of the fish you've just caught."
So Simon Peter got into the boat and hauled the net ashore full of large fish, one hundred and fifty-three altogether (the number of known types of fish in the Sea of Galilee or the world according to one of the various traditions). But in spite of the large number the net was not torn.
Then Jesus said to them, "Come and have your breakfast."
None of the disciples dared to ask him who he was; they knew it was the Lord.
Jesus went and took the bread and gave it to them and gave them all fish as well. This is already the third time that Jesus showed himself to his disciples after his resurrection from the dead.
The last breakfast – Science & Health by Mary Baker Eddy
Atonement & Eucharist 34:29-18
What a contrast between our Lord's last supper and
30 his last spiritual breakfast with his disciples
in the bright morning hours at the joyful
meeting on the shore of the Galilean Sea! His gloom
1 had passed into glory, and his disciples' grief into repent-
ance, — hearts chastened and pride rebuked. Convinced
3 of the fruitlessness of their toil in the dark and wakened
by their Master's voice, they changed their methods, turned
away from material things, and cast their net on the right
6 side. Discerning Christ, Truth, anew on the shore of
time, they were enabled to rise somewhat from mortal
sensuousness, or the burial of mind in matter, into new-
9 ness of life as Spirit.
This spiritual meeting with our Lord in the dawn of a
new light is the morning meal which Christian Scientists
12 commemorate. They bow before Christ, Truth, to re-
ceive more of his reappearing and silently to commune
with the divine Principle, Love. They celebrate their
15 Lord's victory over death, his probation in the flesh
after death, its exemplification of human probation, and
his spiritual and final ascension above matter, or the flesh,
18 when he rose out of material sight.