“Jesus appeared again to his disciples, by the Sea of Tiberias… Simon Peter, Thomas (called Didymus), Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples were together” (John 21:1,2).
“ ‘Two other.’ The suggestiveness of these words is arresting. This was a wonderful occasion on which the Lord was specially manifesting himself to a group of disciples. Every phase of the doings of that morning is full of light and glory. The risen Redeemer and Ruler was showing men his interest and power in the commonplaces of their lives, and in the greatest responsibilities thereof. He touched their daily doings with light and glory [in the midst of] fishing and preparing breakfast. He gave them the grandest conception of their fellowship with himself in his work of gathering together, in one, the sheep that were scattered abroad.
“Who were these men? They were Simon Peter, and Thomas, and Nathanael, and James and John — all outstanding figures. But there were ‘two other’ and they are unnamed. They represent the anonymous and hidden multitudes of faithful souls, whose names are never published in human documents, and whose deeds are never recorded in human reports. To these he manifested himself, as surely as to the others.
“Those ‘two other’ represented the majority of the saints. Let all such remember that of his fullness they also receive. Manifestations are needed for fidelity in obscure places of service, and they are granted.
“To all his own, he ever comes with unveilings of his glory, with ministrations of his grace and truth” (G. Campbell Morgan).
The Origin of the Organic World – Part One