John Trapp on John 21:7

Verſe 7. Therefore that Diſciple, &c.] Now they ſee the cauſe why, till then, they caught nothing, was, that they might the better know him to be the Lord. God will one day let us ſee, that he in very faith fulneſſe afflicts us; and that however it ſeem ſo for a ſeaſon, it is not in vain to have ſought his face. John knew not our Saviour by ſight here, but by the multitude of fiſhes that came to hand, by his direction. The Rochellers might eaſily ſee as much, when they were miraculouſly relieved by that ſhoal of ſhel-fiſh caſt upon their ſhore in a ſtrait ſiege, Act and Mon. whereby their City was miraculouſly preſerved.