John 21
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Jesus’s Third Appearance to the Disciples
1After this, Jesus revealed # 21:1 Mk 16:12; Jn 21:14; 2Co 4:11; 5:10; 1Tm 3:16; Heb 9:26; 1Pt 1:10; 1Jn 1:2; 3:5,8 himself again to his disciples by the Sea of Tiberias. # 21:1 Another name for the Sea of Galilee,# 21:1 Jn 6:1,23 He revealed himself in this way:
2Simon Peter, # 21:2 Lk 6:14; Ac 10:32 Thomas # 21:2 Mk 3:18 (called “Twin” # 21:2 GkDidymus), Nathanael # 21:2 Jn 1:45–49 from Cana of Galilee, # 21:2 Mt 17:22 Zebedee’s # 21:2 Mt 4:21; 10:2; 20:20; 26:37; 27:56; Mk 1:19–20; 3:17; 10:35; Lk 5:10; Jn 21:7; Ac 12:2 sons, and two others of his disciples were together.
3“I’m going fishing,” Simon Peter said to them.
“We’re coming with you,” they told him. They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. # 21:3 Lk 5:5
4When daybreak came, Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did not know it was Jesus. # 21:4 Jn 20:14,19,26 5“Friends,” # 21:5 Lit “Children” Jesus called to them, “you don’t have any fish, do you? ”
“No,” they answered.
6 “Cast the net on the right side of the boat,” he told them, “and you’ll find some.” So they did, # 21:6 Lit they cast and they were unable to haul it in because of the large number of fish. 7The disciple, the one Jesus loved, said to Peter, “It is the Lord! ” # 21:7 Lk 10:1; 1Co 8:6
When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he tied his outer clothing around him (for he had taken it off) and plunged into the sea. 8Since they were not far from land (about a hundred yards # 21:8 Lit about two hundred cubits,# 21:8 Lk 12:25 away), the other disciples came in the boat, # 21:8 Mk 3:9; Jn 6:22–24 dragging the net full of fish.
9When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire there, with fish lying on it, and bread. 10“Bring some of the fish you’ve just caught,” Jesus told them. 11So Simon Peter climbed up and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish — 153 of them. Even though there were so many, the net was not torn. # 21:11 Lk 5:4–10
12 “Come and have breakfast,” Jesus told them. None of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you? ” because they knew it was the Lord. 13Jesus came, took the bread, and gave it to them. He did the same with the fish. 14This was now the third time # 21:14 Jn 20:19,26 Jesus appeared # 21:14 Lit was revealed (v. 1),# 21:14 Jn 21:1; 2Co 4:11; 1Jn 1:2 to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.
Jesus’s Threefold Restoration of Peter
15When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, # 21:15–17 Other mss read “Simon, son of Jonah; Mt 16:17; Jn 1:42 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. 16A second time he asked him, “Simon, son of John, do you love # 21:16 Lk 6:35; Rv 12:11 me? ” # 21:16 Lk 10:27
“Yes, Lord,” he said to him, “you know that I love you.”
“Shepherd # 21:16 1Pt 5:2 my sheep,” # 21:16 Mt 7:15; Jn 10:11he told him.
17He asked him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love # 21:17 Mk 14:44; Jn 5:20 me? ”
Peter was grieved # 21:17 2Co 2:2 that he asked him the third time, “Do you love me? ” He said, “Lord, you know everything; # 21:17 Jn 16:30 you know that I love you.”
“Feed # 21:17 Jn 21:15 my sheep,” Jesus said. 18“Truly I tell you, # 21:18 Jn 1:51; Rv 22:21 when you were younger, you would tie your belt and walk wherever you wanted. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will tie you and carry you where you don’t want to go.” 19He said this to indicate by what kind of death # 21:19 2Pt 1:14 Peter would glorify God. # 21:19 Jn 11:4; 17:1; 1Pt 2:12 After saying this, he told him, “Follow me.” # 21:19 Jn 1:43; 8:12; 10:27
Correcting a False Report
20So Peter turned around and saw the disciple Jesus loved # 21:20 Jn 21:7 following them, the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper and asked, “Lord, who is the one that’s going to betray you? ” # 21:20 Jn 13:21,23–25 21When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, “Lord, what about him? ”
22 “If I want him to remain until I come,” # 21:22 Mk 8:38 Jesus answered, “what is that to you? As for you, follow me.”
23So this rumor # 21:23 Lit this word spread to the brothers and sisters # 21:23 Ac 9:30 that this disciple would not die. # 21:23 Mk 9:1 Yet Jesus did not tell him that he would not die, but, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? ”
Epilogue
24This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true.
25And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which, if every one of them were written down, I suppose not even the world itself could contain the books # 21:25 Lit scroll that would be written. # 21:25 Jn 20:30
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Yochanan 21
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1After these things Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach manifested himself again to His talmidim at Lake Tiberias. Now Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was manifested thus. 2Together there were Shim'on Kefa and T'oma (his name means Twin) and Natan'el, the one from Kanah in the Galil and the Bnei Zavdai and two others of the talmidim of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. 3Shim'on Kefa says to them, I am going to fish. They say to Shim'on Kefa, We are coming also with you. They went forth and embarked into the sirah. And during that lailah they caught not one thing.
4Now when the beginning of Shacharis had already come, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach stood on the shore. The talmidim had not, however, realized it was he. 5Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says, therefore, to them, Yeladim, surely not any dagim (fish) you have? In reply, they said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Lo. 6And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Throw the reshet (net) to the right side of the sirah (boat), and you will find dagim. Therefore, they threw it. And now they were not strong enough to draw in the reshet (net), because of the multitude of dagim. 7Therefore, the talmid ha'ahuv says to Shim'on Kefa, It is Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu! Therefore, Shim'on Kefa, having heard this, strapped his gartel around his kaftan, for he was unclothed, and threw himself into the sea. 8But the other talmidim in the sirah, for they were not far from the land but about two hundred cubits out, came dragging the reshet of the dagim.
9Therefore, when the talmidim disembarked onto the shore, they see a hadlakah (bonfire) there and dagim lying on it and lechem. 10Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Bring some from the dagim which you caught now. 11Therefore, Shim'on Kefa went up and dragged the reshet (net) onto the shore, full of large dagim, me'ah vchamishim ushloshah (one hundred and fifty three), and, though being so many, did not split the reshet (net). 12Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Come, eat! Now not one of the talmidim was daring to ask him, Who are you? — having had da'as that it is Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu. 13Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach comes and takes the lechem and gives to them, likewise the dagim. 14This was now the shlishit (third) time Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having been made to stand up alive from the mesim, was manifested to the talmidim.
15Then when they ate, he says to Shim'on Kefa, Shim'on Bar-Yochanan, do you have ahavah for me more than these? Shim'on Kefa says to him, Ken, Adoni, You have da'as that I have ahavah for You. He says to him, Feed My lambs. 16He again a second time says to him, Shim'on Bar-Yochanan, do you have ahavah for me? Shim'on Kefa says to him, Ken, Adoni, You have da'as that I have ahavah for You. He says to him, Take care#21:16 as a ro'eh (shepherd) would of My sheep.#21:16 2Sm 5:2; Ezek 34:2; Ps 78:71-72 17Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him the shlishit time, Shim'on Bar-Yochanan, do you have ahavah for me? Kefa was grieved because Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him the shlishit time, Do you have ahavah for me? And he says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Adoni, You have da'as of all things. You have da'as that I have ahavah for You. Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, Feed My kevasim. 18Omein, omein, I say to you, that when you were young, you were girding yourself and were walking where you wanted, but when you grow old you will extend your hands and another will gird you and carry you where you do not wish to go. 19And this He said signifying by what mavet Shim'on Kefa will glorify Hashem. After this, He said to him, Follow Me.
20Having turned, Kefa sees the talmid ha'ahuv following them, who also was reclining at tish during the seudah upon the kheyk of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and this talmid was the one who had said Adoni, who is the one betraying you? 21Then Kefa, having seen this one, says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Adoni, and what about this man? 22He says to him, If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow Me. 23Therefore, a rumor went out saying to the achim B'Moshiach that that talmid would not die. But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach did not tell him that he would not die, but rather, If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?
24This is the talmid, the one giving solemn edut (testimony) about these things, and the one having written these things and we have da'as that his edut is emes.
25And there are many other things which Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach did, which if they are written one by one, not the Olam Hazeh itself I suppose would have room enough for the sfarim being written.
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