20 Bible Verses About Fish

In the Bible, fish are part of creation and ordinary food, and several of Jesus’ disciples caught them for a living. Genesis 1:21 records their making, Leviticus 11:9 says which ones Israel may eat, and Jonah 1:17 tells of the huge fish that swallowed Jonah. In the Gospels Jesus calls the Galilee fishermen to “fish for people” (Mark 1:17), feeds crowds with a few fish (Matthew 14:19-20; Mark 8:7-8), and after rising from the dead eats broiled fish in front…