021:015 So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to
Simon Peter, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?"
He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you."
He said to him, "Feed my lambs."
021:016 He said to him again a second time, "Simon, son of Jonah,
do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I
have affection for you." He said to him, "Tend my sheep."
021:017 He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you
have affection for me?" Peter was grieved because he asked
him the third time, "Do you have affection for me?"
He said to him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I
have affection for you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.
021:018 Most certainly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself,
and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old,
you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you,
and carry you where you don't want to go."
021:019 Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would
glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, "Follow me."
021:020 Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following.
This was the disciple whom Jesus sincerely loved,
the one who had also leaned on Jesus' breast at the supper
and asked, "Lord, who is going to betray You?"
021:021 Peter seeing him, said to Jesus, "Lord, what about this man?"
021:022 Jesus said to him, "If I desire that he stay until I come,
what is that to you? You follow me."
021:023 This saying therefore went out among the brothers{The word
for "brothers" here may be also correctly translated "brothers
and sisters" or "siblings."}, that this disciple wouldn't die.
Yet Jesus didn't say to him that he wouldn't die, but, "If I
desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?"
021:024 This is the disciple who testifies about these things,
and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true.
021:025 There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they
would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself
wouldn't have room for the books that would be written.
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