John Chapter 21 verse 4 Holy Bible
But when day was now breaking, Jesus stood on the beach: yet the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.
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Now very early in the morning Jesus was there by the edge of the sea (though the disciples were not conscious that it was Jesus).
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And early morn already breaking, Jesus stood on the shore; the disciples however did not know that it was Jesus.
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But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.
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But when day had already come, Jesus stood on the beach, yet the disciples didn't know that it was Jesus.
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And morning being now come, Jesus stood at the shore, yet indeed the disciples did not know that it is Jesus;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - When the day was now breaking, Jesus stood on the beach. If the εἰς be thetrue reading, it would imply that he stood forth, as having come from some unperceived region. If the ἐπὶ remain, the idea is that the morning light, as it was breaking over them through the curtain of dense mist which hung before sunrise on the eastern hills, discovered Jesus standing upon the beach. There is obvious reference, in the manner of his approach, to that "standing" in the midst of them, with which they had become familiar (see John 20:14, 19, 26). Howbeit (μέντοι suggests something unusual, John 4:27; John 12:42) the disciples knew not that it was Jesus. He is not walking on the waters as of old, but standing on the solid ground. Just as Mary of Magdala, and as the disciples on the way to Emmaus, and as even the disciples themselves on the Easter night, were in doubt, at first, who and what this manifestation might mean, so now the chosen seven fail to understand that which was before their very eyes. The morning mist and shadows adding to the obscurity produced by some hundred yards of distance, together with wearied and toilsome effort and a sleepless night, may suggest some explanation of the marvel; but the mystery is baffling. Two or three remarks may be made. (1) These various appearances seem at first to confuse their perceptions by reason of the ordinary human characteristics that accompanied them. Mary for a moment mistook him for the owner or worker in the garden; the "two disciples" imagined that he was "a stranger in Jerusalem;" and these disciples think him, for the moment, to have been a stray wanderer by the lake-side. Their presupposition concerning the reappearance of their risen Lord would probably have involved some strange and awe-striking fulguration of his power; but the true "spiritual body" does, when it pleases, take on forms far more familiar. (2) The slowness of the process by which the apostles became finally convinced, against their prejudices and sense-bound views, that he had risen into a new form of living, and into new conditions of existence.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) Jesus stood on the shore.--Comp. John 20:19; John 20:26. The words express the sudden appearance without any indication of His coming. He was then standing in the midst, or on the shore, but no one knew whence or how.The disciples knew not that it was Jesus.--Comp. John 20:14.
