Peter without working any miracle, yet in 3:13–19 he seems to choose his twelve disciples all over again. John has parallels to neither of these stories but does describe a miraculous catch of fish, followed by a commissioning of Peter, in his stories of Jesus’ resurrection appearances (John 21:1–19). Strauss ridicules previous attempts to harmonize all these data and concludes that the stories were ‘placed by tradition in different periods’ of Jesus’ life and invented to illustrate his calling his