When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, ‘Simon, son of John, 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. A second time he asked him, ‘Simon, son of John, do you love me? ’
‘Yes, Lord,’ he said to him, ‘you know that I love you.’
‘Shepherd my sheep,’ he told him.
He asked him the third time, ‘Simon, son of John, do you love me? ’
Peter was grieved that he asked him the third time, ‘Do you love me? ’ He said, ‘Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.’
‘Feed my sheep,’ Jesus said.