Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on John 21:3-6

3-6. Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing--(See on Lu 5:11).

that night ... caught nothing--as at the first miraculous draught (see on Lu 5:5); no doubt so ordered that the miracle might strike them the more by contrast. The same principle is seen in operation throughout much of Christ's ministry, and is indeed a great law of God's spiritual procedure with His people.