John 21:15-25

Jesus and Peter

15 When they had ¹finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, ²"Simon, ³son of John, ⁴do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." He said to him, "Feed ⁵my lambs."

16 He said to him a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." He said to him, ⁶"Tend ⁷my sheep."

17 He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was grieved because he said to him ⁸the third time, "Do you love me?" and he said to him, "Lord, ⁹you know everything; you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed ¹⁰my sheep.

18 ¹¹Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, ¹²you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go."

19 (This he said to show ¹³by what kind of death he was to glorify God.) And after saying this he said to him, ¹⁴"Follow me."

Jesus and the Beloved Apostle

20 Peter turned and saw ¹⁵the disciple whom Jesus loved following them, ¹⁶the one who had been reclining at table close to him and had said, "Lord, who is it that is going to betray you?"

21 When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, "Lord, what about this man?"

22 Jesus said to him, "If it is my will that he remain ¹⁷until ¹⁸I come, what is that to you? ¹⁹You follow me!"

23 So the saying spread abroad among ²⁰the brothers^[a] that this disciple was not to die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he was not to die, but, "If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you?"

24 This is the disciple ²¹who is bearing witness about these things, and who has written these things, and ²²we know ²³that his testimony is true.

25 Now ²⁴there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that ²⁵the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.

Cross References

• 1. ver. 12
• 2. [Matthew 16:17; Luke 22:31]
• 3. John 1:42
• 4. [Matthew 26:33; Mark 14:29]
• 5. John 10:11-16; [Isaiah 40:11]
• 6. Acts 20:28; 1 Peter 5:2; Revelation 7:17(Gk.)
• 7. [See ver. 15 above]
• 8. [John 13:38]
• 9. See John 2:25
• 10. ver. 16
• 11. [John 13:36]
• 12. ver. 7
• 13. 2 Peter 1:14
• 14. ver. 22; Matthew 16:24; [John 13:36]; See John 8:12
• 15. ver. 7
• 16. John 13:25
• 17. Matthew 10:23; Matthew 16:28; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 1 Corinthians 11:26; James 5:7; Revelation 2:25
• 18. [John 14:3, 18, 28; Hebrews 10:37; Revelation 2:5, 16; Revelation 3:3, 11; Revelation 16:15; Revelation 22:7, 12, 20]; See Matthew 16:27
• 19. ver. 19
• 20. Acts 1:15; Acts 9:30; Acts 11:1; Acts 12:17; Acts 15:1; Acts 16:2, 40; Acts 21:7, 17; 1 John 3:14, 16
• 21. See John 15:27
• 22. 1 John 3:2, 14; 1 John 5:15, 18-20; [John 19:35]
• 23. 3 John 12
• 24. John 20:30
• 25. [Amos 7:10]

Footnotes

• [a]. Or brothers and sisters