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.

⁹ God is faithful;^(A) you were called by him^(B) into fellowship with his Son,^(C) Jesus Christ our Lord.

⁶ 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.

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