Jesus’s Threefold Restoration of Peter

15 When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John,[a] 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(A) me?”(B)

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

“Shepherd(C) my sheep,”(D) he told him.

17 He asked him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love(E) me?”

Peter was grieved(F) that he asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know everything;(G) you know that I love you.”

“Feed(H) my sheep,” Jesus said.

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Footnotes

  1. 21:15–17 Other mss read “Simon, son of Jonah; Mt 16:17; Jn 1:42

God is faithful;(A) you were called by him(B) into fellowship with his Son,(C) Jesus Christ our Lord.

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I am sure of this, that he who started a good work(A) in you[a] will carry it on to completion(B) until the day of Christ Jesus.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:6 Or work among you

24 He who calls(A) you(B) is faithful; he will do it.

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13 if we are faithless, he remains faithful,
for he cannot deny himself.

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