Annotation CXXVII

”He saw Simon and Andrew casting their nets into the sea, etc.” — Mark 1:16

The fishing of the Apostles.

The author of the explanation on Mark ascribed to Chrysostom, expounding this in homily 4, is censured by Godefridus Tilmannus, because he asserted that it is not written in the gospel that the Apostles, fishing before the Passion of the Lord, ever caught anything; whereas nevertheless it is read in Luke chapter 5 that the disciples, before the death of Christ — at the command of the

Lord — took so great a multitude of fish that the nets were breaking.