JESUS’ THREEFOLD RESTORATION OF PETER

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

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

“Feed t my lambs,”u he told him. 16 A second time he asked him, “Simon, son of John, do you lovev me?”w

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

“Shepherdx my sheep,”y he told him.

17 He asked him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you lovez me?”

Peter was grievedaa that he asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know everything;ab you know that I love you.”

“Feedac my sheep,” Jesus said.