Fishing on the Sea of Tiberias

Abstract

"My wife and I spent Easter Week in 1991, which coincided with the week of Unleavened Bread, at Peniel-by-Galilee, the wonderfully-located YMCA guesthouse on the Lake Galilee shore on the north side of Tiberias. Two nights during that week we were awoken in the early hours by strange banging, accompanied by shouting and flashing of lights. Not far from the shore we could see a small boat with two or three men in it. I found it quite easy to forgive the fishermen the interruption to my sleep, because they had given me such a vivid embodiment of stories in the Gospels such as that in John 21 - which was indeed the set Gospel reading in the Church of England Alternative Service Book on one of the days in question. It was quite easy to imagine a character like Peter not caring two hoots whom he awoke in the cause of making a catch"