Jesus healed a man who had been lame for 38 years. A woman is bound by Satan for 18 years. There were 276 souls saved on the apostle Paul's shipwreck. The Lamb stands on Mt. Zion with 144 thousands. And so on.
Every number mentioned openly in the Bible is a key number for theomatics.
In otherwords, the numbers that appear in the text are all intertwined with the numerical values for the words themselves. In fact, that is how theomatics was discovered. This bizarre passage has taxed the minds of many a Bible student. But theomatically, everything to do with fishes and fishing in the entire Bible is based on the number 153. Just a few examples.