¹¹ ‘I am the good shepherd.^(A) The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.^(B)

¹⁴ ‘I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and my own know me,

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.

Benediction and Farewell

²⁰ Now may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus – the great Shepherd of the sheep^(A) – through the blood of the everlasting covenant,^(B)

²⁵ For you were like sheep going astray,^[a](A) but you have now returned to the Shepherd^(B) and Overseer^[b] of your souls.