Bible Verses About Fishes

These are the things that breed in the waters, and which it is lawful to eat. All that hath fins, and scales, as well in the sea, as in the rivers, and the pools, you shall eat.

But whatsoever hath not fins and scales, of those things that move and live in the waters, shall be an abomination to you,

And detestable. Their flesh you shall not eat: and their carcasses you shall avoid.

All that have not fins and scales, in the waters, shall be unclean.

They answered him: We have not here, but five loaves, and two fishes.

Who said to them: Bring them hither to me.

And when he had commanded the multitude to sit down upon the grass, he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.

And they did all eat, and were filled. And they took up what remained, twelve full baskets of fragments.

And the number of them that did eat, was five thousand men, besides women and children.

Now when he had ceased to speak, he said to Simon: Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a draught.

And Simon answering said to him: Master, we have laboured all the night and have taken nothing: but at thy word I will let down the net.

And when they had done this, they enclosed a very great multitude of fishes: and their net broke.

He saith to them: Cast the net on the right side of the ship; and you shall find. They cast therefore: and now they were not able to draw it, for the multitude of fishes.

That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter: It is the Lord. Simon Peter, when he heard that it was the Lord, girt his coat about him (for he was naked) and cast himself into the sea.

But the other disciples came in the ship (for they were not far from the land, but as it were two hundred cubits) dragging the net with fishes.