inclusio with 1:42.2 Predictably, Roman Catholic interpreters tend to see in the present passage evidence for Petrine primacy.3 But nothing in the present passage suggests “a distinctive authority for Peter. … These verses deal with Peter’s reinstatement to service, not with his elevation to primacy” (Carson 1991: 679). Peter is neither charged to serve as “Jesus’ earthly vicar” nor appointed as the “chief shepherd to whom all the other shepherds are subordinate” (Ridderbos 1997: 666). In fact,
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