John 21:13-24

¹³Jesus took the bread and gave it to them and the fish as well.

¹⁴This was the third time Jesus had appeared to the disciples after being raised from the dead.

¹⁵After breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” “Yes, Lord,” he replied, “you know I love you.”

¹⁶“Take care of my lambs,” Jesus told him. “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” he asked for the second time. “Yes, Lord,” he answered, “you know I love you.”

¹⁷“Look after my sheep,” Jesus said to him. “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” he asked a third time. Peter was saddened that Jesus had asked him for the third time if he loved him. “Lord, you know everything. You know I love you,” Peter told him. “Take care of my sheep,” said Jesus.

¹⁸“I tell you the truth,” said Jesus, “when you were young, you dressed yourself and went wherever you wanted. But when you're old, you'll hold out your hands and someone will dress you and take you where you don't want to go.”

¹⁹Jesus said this to explain the kind of death by which he would glorify God. Then he said to Peter, “Follow me.”

²⁰As Peter turned round, he saw the disciple Jesus loved following them, the one who had leaned over to Jesus during the supper and asked, “Lord, who is going to betray you?”

²¹Peter asked Jesus, “What about him, Lord?”

²²Jesus told him, “If I want him to remain alive here until I return, why is that your concern? You follow me!”

²³This is why the saying spread among the believers that this disciple would not die. But Jesus didn't say to him that he wouldn't die, just that “If I want him to remain alive here until I return, why is that your concern?”

²⁴This disciple confirms what happened and wrote all this down. We know that what he says is true.