Sentences with phrase «miraculous draughts»

There was a time, he recalls, still within memory of the eldest citizens, when the river overflowed with «miraculous draughts of fishes.»

Not just the miraculous draught of fish, but the divine power at work in Jesus singles Peter out for special service.

Only a later narrative (Luke 5:1 — l1) permits us to see (perhaps with historical correctness) that the saying about fishers of men was spoken in connection with a miraculous draught of fishes.

But even his very realistic portrayals of nature such as that of Lake Geneva in The Miraculous Draught of Fishes are only used as a background and the theme of the painting is conveyed by the figures in the foreground.