Christ said to the fisherman...

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 Christ said to the fishermen, "I will make you fishers of men.'  That meant, 'As you spread your net and fish come into it, so by being more spiritual, so by becoming more spiritual, your personality will spread in the atmosphere, and the hearts of men hungering for love will be attracted to you like fish.'  The love of Christ for the lamb expresses symbolically that the soul, which made the greatest appeal to the Master, was simple and harmless as a lamb.  The crown of thorns represents tolerance of the thorn-like personalities of which there are so many in the world, constantly pricking with their crowns, consciously or unconsciously.

It is this which makes sensitive people annoyed with life in the world.  But the messenger, whose heart represents the divine Mother and Father, cannot but be tolerant, and is able to accept willingly all the thorns that come to him, for that is his crown, the sign of his sovereignty int he kingdom of his soul.

The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Unity of Religious Ideals,
Hazrat Inayat Khan