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Joh_21:3-4. Ἐρχόμ . κ . ἡμεῖς σὺν σοί ] John has not employed ἀκολουθεῖν , nor said ἄγωμεν κ . ἡμεῖς (Joh_11:16), because he has thought just what was said.
The circumstantiality is not un-Johannean (Lücke), but comp. e.g. Joh_1:39-40, Joh_9:1-12. In particular, moreover, the ὑπάγω ἁλιεύειν is only the simple language of familiar association, in which neither a “brusque tone,” nor “an internal impulse, a presentiment” (Godet), is to be recognised. The disciples desire again to pursue their earthly employments, “quod privatos homines decebat,” Calvin.
ἐξῆλθον ] from the place indicated in Joh_21:2, probably Capernaum, out to the lake, Joh_21:1.
By night the fishing was productive. Comp. on Luk_5:5; Aristot. H. A. viii. 19. But they caught nothing. How entirely different was it afterwards, when they cast out at the bidding of the Lord!
ἔστη ] Expressing the sudden appearance. Comp. Joh_20:19; Joh_20:26.
εἰς τ . αἰγ .] Comp. Joh_20:19; Joh_20:26.
οὐ μέντοι , κ . τ . λ .] To be explained from the entirely altered condition and appearance of the Risen One. Chrysostom, assigns the reason to the will of Jesus: οὐκ εὐθέως ἑαυτὸν δείκνυσιν , comp. also Luthardt and Hengstenberg, of which John, however, gives no indication. Comp. rather on Joh_20:14.