us?” They may have remembered what Jesus had said earlier, “Without Me you can do nothing” (15:5). Then there is a figure on the shore they do not recognize who cries out, “Children” (or it can be translated “fellows”), “have you any food?” How suggestive the physical and spiritual implications of that question are. And when they answer, “No,” the “Stranger” commands them to “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some” (v. 6). How often, like these disciples, we have been