The chapter before us is plainly a supplement to the main history.  St. John concluded that history under a deep conviction that it was far from a full account of his Master’s wonderful ministry.  “Many other signs,” said he, “truly did Jesus, in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book.”  But in this supplementary chapter, added to the Gospel, perhaps, after a lapse of several years, the inspired Evangelist returns to his subject, and relates with singular minuteness of detail the miracle of the draught of fishes. 

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