14 This was now the third time(A) Jesus appeared[a](B) to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.

Jesus’s Threefold Restoration of Peter

15 When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John,[b] do you love me more than these?”

“Yes, Lord,” he said to him, “you know that I love you.”

“Feed my lambs,” he told him. 16 A second time he asked him, “Simon, son of John, do you love(C) me?”(D)

“Yes, Lord,” he said to him, “you know that I love you.”

“Shepherd(E) my sheep,”(F) he told him.

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Footnotes

  1. 21:14 Lit was revealed (v. 1)
  2. 21:15–17 Other mss read “Simon, son of Jonah; Mt 16:17; Jn 1:42

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