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.