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Chapter 21
The appearance on the shore of Tiberias
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Later on, Jesus showed himself again to the disciples. It was by the Sea of Tiberias, and it happened like this:
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Simon Peter, Thomas called the Twin, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee and two more of his disciples were together.
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Simon Peter said, ‘I’m going fishing’. They replied, ‘We’ll come with you’. They went out and got into the boat but caught nothing that night.
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It was light by now and there stood Jesus on the shore, though the disciples did not realise that it was Jesus.
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Jesus called out, ‘Have you caught anything, friends?’ And when they answered, ‘No’,
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he said, ‘Throw the net out to starboard and you’ll find something’. So they dropped the net, and there were so many fish that they could not haul it in.
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The disciple Jesus loved said to Peter, ‘It is the Lord’. At these words ‘It is the Lord’, Simon Peter, who had practically nothing on, wrapped his cloak round him and jumped into the water.
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The other disciples came on in the boat, towing the net and the fish; they were only about a hundred yards from land.
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As soon as they came ashore they saw that there was some bread there, and a charcoal fire with fish cooking on it.
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Jesus said, ‘Bring some of the fish you have just caught’.
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Simon Peter went aboard and dragged the net to the shore, full of big fish, one hundred and fifty-three of them; and in spite of there being so many the net was not broken.
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Jesus said to them, ‘Come and have breakfast’. None of the disciples was bold enough to ask, ‘Who are you?’; they knew quite well it was the Lord.
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Jesus then stepped forward, took the bread and gave it to them, and the same with the fish.
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This was the third time that Jesus showed himself to the disciples after rising from the dead.
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After the meal Jesus said to Simon Peter, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me more than these others do?’ He answered, ‘Yes Lord, you know I love you’. Jesus said to him, ‘Feed my lambs’.
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A second time he said to him, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me?’ He replied, ‘Yes, Lord, you know I love you’. Jesus said to him, ‘Look after my sheep’.
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Then he said to him a third time, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me?’ Peter was upset that he asked him the third time, ‘Do you love me?’ and said, ‘Lord, you know everything; you know I love you’. Jesus said to him, ‘Feed my sheep.
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‘I tell you most solemnly, when you were young you put on your own belt and walked where you liked; but when you grow old you will stretch out your hands, and somebody else will put a belt round you and take you where you would rather not go.’
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In these words he indicated the kind of death by which Peter would give glory to God. After this he said, ‘Follow me’.
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Peter turned and saw the disciple Jesus loved following them – the one who had leaned on his breast at the supper and had said to him, ‘Lord, who is it that will betray you?’
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Seeing him, Peter said to Jesus, ‘What about him, Lord?’
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Jesus answered, ‘If I want him to stay behind till I come, what does it matter to you? You are to follow me.’
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The rumour then went out among the brothers that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus had not said to Peter, ‘He will not die’, but, ‘If I want him to stay behind till I come’.
Conclusion
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This disciple is the one who vouches for these things and has written them down, and we know that his testimony is true.
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There were many other things that Jesus did; if all were written down, the world itself, I suppose, would not hold all the books that would have to be written.
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