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Joh_21:10-11. ʼΕνέγκατε , κ . τ . λ .] for the completion, conformably to their needs, of the dish of fish already found upon the fire of coals. That the eating of Jesus and of the disciples was no material, but a spiritual one (the enjoyment which Jesus has from the activity of His apostles), is a fiction of Hengstenberg’s.
According to Joh_21:11, Peter alone draws the full net to land, which, of course, since it hung on the vessel, which lay on the shore, was easier than to draw it up out of the water into the boat, Joh_21:6. According to Hengstenberg, he is, indeed, named only as being the chief person, because he was the middle point of the spiritual fishing. The statement of the number of the fishes is as little an apocryphal trait as the statement of the number of those who were miraculously fed, Joh_6:10, and all the less, since it is not a round number which is named. The μεγάλων heightens the miraculous effect.
καὶ τοσούτων ὄντων , κ . τ . λ .] Regarded by John as incomprehensible, and as effected by Christ; by Strauss, as manifestly legendary, as well as the number of the fishes, which, however, might, notwithstanding, be to the minds of the disciples, in relation to this miraculous experience, important enough, and sufficiently so not to be forgotten. On the allegorical interpretations of the number 153, see note after Joh_21:14.