John 21:15

Jesus asks Peter if he loves Him more than these, and tells him to feed His lambs. It matters because it begins Peter's restoration and commissions him to shepherd Christ's people.

Cross-references · 40

• 1 Jn 4:19We love because He first loved us.
• Isa 40:11He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.
• Rom 15:1We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves.
• 2 Cor 5:14–15For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
• 1 Pet 5:1–4As a fellow elder, a witness of Christ’s sufferings, and a partaker of the glory to be revealed, I appeal to the elders among you:
• 1 Pet 1:8Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,
• Eph 6:24Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.
• Acts 20:28Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
• John 14:15–24If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
• Jer 3:15Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.”
• Ezek 34:23I will appoint over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them. He will feed them and be their shepherd.
• Luke 22:32But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith will not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”
• 1 Jn 5:1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him.
• John 16:27For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.
• Jer 23:4I will raise up shepherds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer be afraid or dismayed, nor will any go missing, declares the LORD.
• 1 Pet 2:25For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
• Heb 4:13Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
• Heb 13:20Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,
• 1 Tim 4:15–16Be diligent in these matters and absorbed in them, so that your progress will be evident to all.
• Matt 16:17Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by My Father in heaven.
• Rom 14:1Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on his opinions.
• Ezek 34:2–10“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the shepherds of Israel, who only feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed their flock?
• Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
• John 21:7Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” As soon as Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment (for he had removed it) and jumped into the sea.
• 1 Cor 16:21–22This greeting is in my own hand—Paul.
• Matt 18:10See that you do not look down on any of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of My Father in heaven.
• John 21:16–17Jesus asked a second time, “Simon son of John, do you love Me?” “Yes, Lord,” he answered, “You know I love You.” Jesus told him, “Shepherd My sheep.”
• 1 Cor 3:1–3Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.
• Heb 12:12–13Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees.
• 1 Pet 2:2Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
• John 21:12“Come, have breakfast,” Jesus said to them. None of the disciples dared to ask Him, “Who are You?” They knew it was the Lord.
• Rev 2:23Then I will strike her children dead, and all the churches will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.
• Eph 4:14Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.
• Mark 14:29Peter declared, “Even if all fall away, I never will.”
• John 8:42Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on My own, but He sent Me.
• 1 Cor 8:11So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.
• Ps 78:70–72He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;
• Matt 25:34–45Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
• Gen 33:13But Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die.
• Luke 12:32Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom.

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