Against the background of Christ's activity Peter and his colleagues appear. They are the collaborators of a prodigious fact, but they are still the poor people they were previously. Peter confesses it in his own name and of his colleagues declaring himself a sinner. In front of God's truth, Peter discovers his own truth and feels unworthy. There is no revelation of God without awareness of one's sin. We can know the infinite greatness of God only as we discover of our baseness.
The effectiveness of the miraculous catch is not due to their skill, but to the command given by Jesus. Their credit is to have believed in his word. The uselessness of nocturnal fatigue indicates the vanity of all human efforts made on one's own initiative to establish the kingdom of God. Only in obedience to the word of the Lord can what is impossible for human strength be achieved. Faith has no other support than the word of God. Precisely for this faith, Jesus changes the name of Simon to Peter and gives him a new commission: "From now on you will be a fisher of men" (v.10). Peter receives his mission just as he recognizes himself a sinner. This means that his faith will not decay even for his infidelity, because it is based on God's faithfulness. Simon will become Peter and will receive the task of confirming his brothers in the faith just when he had fully consumed his own experience of weakness, of infidelity, of sin (Lk 22: 31-34). These fishermen, believing in the word of Christ, immediately leave boats and nets and set out to follow Jesus: He sends them to free men from the power of death and to transfer them to the kingdom of life, the kingdom of God. Missionary action of Jesus will pass to the poor fishermen of Galilee, who leave their profession and venture on the stormy seas of time to save all the peoples of the earth from eternal death. But to be true disciples of Jesus one must leave everything, beginning with leaving oneself to become the exclusive property of Christ.