An ancient homily stages a desert fishing contestSourced
A fishing contest in a desert.
Jesus versus the devil.
A Coptic Christian homily probably composed in Egypt between the sixth and eighth centuries imagines the devil challenging Jesus and his followers to fish in the desert. It is a later story, not a record of a biblical event.
An impossible fishing spot
made the story's point.
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