For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.

Isaiah 43.3

Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.

John 21.11

The Number 153 appears explicitly in John 21.10, and implicitly in the values of the words used (side = 153, net = 1224). It has many interesting properties. For example:

153 = 1 + 2 + 3 + ... + 16 + 17 = Sum(17)

153 = 1! + 2! + 3! + 4! + 5!

153 = 1³ + 5³ + 3³

In the second identity, the exclamation mark represents the mathematical function known as n factorial which is defined as n! = 1 x 2 x 3 x ... x n. Other properties of the Number 153 are discussed on a page by Shyam Sunder Gupta .

Factors: 9 x 17

Cf. 612, 1071

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