I wonder who counted. Don't distract me. Now I'm mixed up. I've got to tell you a secret. Nobody knows how many fish were caught that night.
Nobody knows, and nobody cares.
But the scholars of the Bible point out to us that John, the Evangelist, who wrote about this scene, maybe thirty years after it happened, he was concerned about something much more important, something bigger. There is room for all kinds of odd fish, lots of odd fish. And the nets will not be broken. That's the message he wants to give us. Because, when you think about it, in the time of Jesus and the religious institution that He was raised up in, there was kind of a feeling that there wasn't room for a lot of fish.