BH.1. Various conjectures have been offered as to what the number 153 is meant to represent.
No one is sure, but I find it quite interesting that the great mathematician Archimedes had, three centuries earlier, associated the number 153 with that of a fish, or fish bladder.
According to Wikipedia, the number 153 is associated with the geometric shape known as the Vesica Piscis [fish bladder] . Archimedes, in his Measurement of a Circle, referred to the ratio 153/265, as constituting the "measure of the fish," this ratio being an imperfect representation of 1/√3.
We see below that the geometric shape formed by intersection of two congruent circles looks rather like a fish, or a fish bladder.
BH.2. Commentators have often focused on the various Greek words used for love in John 21.
David Guzik's remarks are representative:
Enduring Word commentary
https://enduringword.com/bible-commentary/john-21-2/
Without casting aspersions on any commentary, we simply note that it seems quite likely that Jesus and Peter would have been speaking Aramaic, not Greek.
No one is sure, but I find it quite interesting that the great mathematician Archimedes had, three centuries earlier, associated the number 153 with that of a fish, or fish bladder.
According to Wikipedia, the number 153 is associated with the geometric shape known as the Vesica Piscis [fish bladder] . Archimedes, in his Measurement of a Circle, referred to the ratio 153/265, as constituting the "measure of the fish," this ratio being an imperfect representation of 1/√3.
We see below that the geometric shape formed by intersection of two congruent circles looks rather like a fish, or a fish bladder.
BH.2. Commentators have often focused on the various Greek words used for love in John 21.
David Guzik's remarks are representative:
Enduring Word commentary
https://enduringword.com/bible-commentary/john-21-2/
Without casting aspersions on any commentary, we simply note that it seems quite likely that Jesus and Peter would have been speaking Aramaic, not Greek.
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