What Does the Fish Mean in the Bible?
Fish = faith — the soul, and the ideas that faith multiplies. 'Fishers of men' = drawing souls toward truth. In the feeding of the five thousand, the 2 fish are 2 servings of faith: the belief that even a little faithfully given is multiplied into enough for everyone. The whale/fish = faith: the quiet confidence that what sinks into the dark shall rise again.
How it shows up in the Bible
Fish in the nets, fish multiplied at the feeding, fish caught after the resurrection: in every case the fish comes out of water. Water is truth, and faith is what grows in it unseen until it is drawn into the open. That is why the first disciples are fishermen, and why the sign of the fish followed them.
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