John 21:17

Jesus asks a third time, grieving Peter, who appeals to Jesus' full knowledge of his love, and is again told to feed His sheep. It matters because it completes Peter's restoration and recommissioning.

Cross-references · 35

• John 13:38Jesus answered him, “Will you lay down your life for me? Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won’t crow until you have denied me three times.
• Mark 14:72The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” When he thought about that, he wept.
• John 16:30Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.”
• John 18:27Peter therefore denied it again, and immediately the rooster crowed.
• John 15:10If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.
• John 21:15–16So 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.”
• Eph 4:30Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
• John 14:15If you love me, keep my commandments.
• Rev 2:23I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
• Acts 1:24They prayed, and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen
• Acts 15:8God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.
• 2 Cor 1:12For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
• John 18:4Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him, went out, and said to them, “Who are you looking for?”
• 1 Jn 3:16–24By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
• 2 Pet 1:12–15Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.
• 1 Kgs 17:18She said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!”
• Ps 17:3You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
• 1 Chr 29:17I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.
• 2 Cor 2:4–7For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.
• John 12:8For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”
• Job 31:4–6Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?
• 1 Pet 1:6Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,
• Josh 22:22“The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don’t save us today),
• Jer 17:10“I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”
• 2 Cor 7:8–11For though I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you sorry, though just for a while.
• 2 Cor 8:8–9I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
• 3 Jn 1:7–8because for the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles.
• Luke 22:61–62The Lord turned, and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the Lord’s word, how he said to him, “Before the rooster crows you will deny me three times.”
• 2 Pet 3:1This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you;
• Ps 7:8–9Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.
• Lam 3:33For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
• Matt 26:73–75After a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, “Surely you are also one of them, for your speech makes you known.”
• John 2:24–25But Jesus didn’t trust himself to them, because he knew everyone,
• Rev 3:19As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
• Matt 25:40“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

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