John 21:1

John recorded still another post-resurrection appearance of Jesus to His disciples. It undoubtedly occurred during the 32-day period between Thomas’ confession (John 20:28) and Jesus’ ascension (Acts 1:9). Exactly when is unimportant. John was the only New Testament writer to refer to the Sea of Galilee as the Sea of Tiberias (cf. John 6:1). Evidently most of his original readers would have known it by this Roman name. John stressed the fact that Jesus revealed Himself throughout this Gospel (cf. John 1:31; John 2:11; John 9:3; John 17:6; John 21:14; et al.; 1 John 1:2; 1 John 2:28; 1 John 3:2; 1 John 3:5; 1 John 3:8; 1 John 4:9). Now Jesus gave another revelation of Himself to these disciples. They were to learn something new about Him from this revelation.