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Let's Go Fishing

See John 21:11. Is there any significance at all to the fact that 153 fish were caught? I cannot get over the fact that there has to be another witness somewhere in the Bible. It has been noted that the Tetragrammaton occurs 153 times in the Book of Genesis. Tetragrammaton refers to the four Hebrew letters usually transliterated as YHWH (Yahweh) or JHVH (Jehovah) signifying the Hebrew name for God which the Jews regarded as too holy to pronounce. The Jewish Encyclopedia found at http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14346-tetragrammaton shows the following Statistics of Occurrences. The Tetragrammaton is the ancient Israelitish name for God. According to actual count, it occurs 5,410 times in the Bible, being divided among the books as follows: Genesis 153 times, Exodus 364, Leviticus 285, Numbers 387, Deuteronomy 230 (total in Torah 1,419); Joshua 170, Judges 158, Samuel 423, Kings 467, Isaiah 367, Jeremiah 555, Ezekiel 211, Minor Prophets 345 (total in Prophets 2,696); Psalms 645, Proverbs 87, Job 31, Ruth 16, Lamentations 32, Daniel 7, Ezra-Nehemiah 31, Chronicles 446 (total in Hagiographa 1,295).

My thoughts on the above are that Genesis is the book of beginnings and Genesis is the first book of the Bible. It shows life from the beginning and God's dealings with man. This means to me that Jesus has just risen from the dead and is showing life from the beginning as the risen Christ and Lord. The two parallel each other.

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