Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'fish' occurs 45 times in the standard works.

13 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'fish' in the standard works and contain 28.9% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 5 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ezek. 29:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 47:9-10 (3 in 2 verses)

Jonah 1:17-2:1 (3 in 2 verses)

Luke 11:11 (2 in 1 verse)


John 21:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

 21:9 As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.

 21:10 Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have now caught.




Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 28 13 41
NT 8 26 34
Matt. 2 6 8
Mark 0 7 7
Luke 3 5 8
John 3 7 10
1 Cor. 0 1 1
BM 3 0 3
DC 3 2 5
PGP 3 1 4
TOTAL 45 42 87

John 6:9
There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?

John 6:11
And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.

John 21:3
Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.

John 21:6
And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.

John 21:7
Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher's coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea.

John 21:8
And the other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not far from land, but as it were two hundred cubits,) dragging the net with fishes.

John 21:9
As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.

John 21:10
Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have now caught.

John 21:11
Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.

John 21:13
Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish likewise.