Religion & Spirituality
This part of scripture is so simple that I think we often skip right over it, but two things are happening here. First, Jesus is asking them to do something they feel is unnecessary and kind of redundant. They have already tried all night and have caught nothing, what would have changed in the last few hours? Secondly, they acted in obedience even though they weren’t totally there with their belief and Jesus met them right at the crossroads of their faith and doubt.