Book of Common Prayer

⁷ The end of all things is at hand. Be therefore discreet and sober, so that you may be fit for prayer. ⁸ But above all things, have fervent love among you. For love covers the multitude of sins.

⁹ Be ready to take one another into your homes, and that without grudging. ¹⁰ As each one has received the gift, minister the same to one another, as good ministers of the manifold grace of God. ¹¹ If anyone speaks, let him do so as though he spoke the words of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as of the ability that God gives to him, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion forever and while the world stands. Amen.

¹⁵ When they had eaten, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?

He said to him, Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.

Jesus said to him, Feed my lambs. ¹⁶ He said to him again the second time, Simon son of Jonah, do you love me?

He said to him, Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.

Jesus said to him, Feed my sheep. ¹⁷ He said to him the third time, Simon, do you love me?

And Peter sorrowed because he said to him the third time, Do you love me? And he said to him, Lord, you know all things. You know that I love you.

Jesus said to him, Feed my sheep. ¹⁸ Truly truly I say to you, when you were young, you girded yourself and walked where you wished. But when you are old, you will stretch forth your hands, and another will gird you and lead you where you do not wish.

¹⁹ He spoke this signifying by what death Peter would glorify God. And when he had said this, he said to him, Follow me.

²⁰ Peter turned about and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following, who also had leaned on his breast at supper and said, Lord, who is it that will betray you? ²¹ When Peter saw him he said to Jesus, Lord, what about this man?

²² Jesus said to him, If I desire him to remain till I come, what is that to you? Follow me.

²³ Then there went out a saying among the brethren that that disciple would not die. But Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but, If I desire him to remain till I come, what is that to you?

²⁴ The same disciple is he who testifies of these things and wrote these things. And we know that his testimony is true.

²⁵ There are also many other things that Jesus did, which, if they were written every one, I suppose the world could not contain the books that would be written.

Here ends the gospel
of Saint John.