The appearance in Galilee and the miracle of the catch of fish
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📚After these things Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the lake of Tiberias✭. and he revealed himself in this way: 2 📚✭Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples of Jesus were together. 3 📚✭Simon Peter said to them, “I’m going fishing”. They said to him, “We will also go with you”. They went out and immediately got into a boat. And that night they caught nothing. 4 📚But when morning came, Jesus was standing on the shore, but the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.
5 📚Then Jesus said to them, “Children,✭ do you have any food?” They answered him, “No”.
6 📚✭And he said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat and you will find some”. So they cast it there, and now they were not able to draw it in because of the large number of fish.
7 📚✭Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord”. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he wrapped his outer garment around him (for he had removed it), and threw himself into the lake. 8 📚And the other disciples came in the little boat (for they were not far from land, but about a hundred meters), dragging the net with fish.
9 📚✭As soon as they reached land, they saw a charcoal fire there, and fish laid on it, and bread.
10 Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish you have just caught”.
11 📚✭Simon Peter went up to the boat, and dragged the net full of large fish to land. They totaled a hundred and fifty-three, but though there were so many, the net was not broken.
12 📚✭Jesus said to them, “Come and eat”. And none of the disciples dared to ask him, “Who are you?” knowing that it was the Lord.
13 📚✭Jesus then came, took the bread and gave it to them, and also the fish.
14 This was now the third time✭ that Jesus showed himself to his disciples, after he had risen from the dead.
15 📚✭So when they had eaten, 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 love you”. He said to him, “Feed my lambs”.✭
16 📚Again he said to him the second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord. You know that I love you”. He said to him, “Take care of✭ my sheep”.
17 📚He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time✭, “Do you love me?” And he said to him, “Lord, you know all things✭. You know that I love you”. Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.✭ 18 📚✭Truly, truly I say to you, when you were young, you fastened your belt around you and went wherever you wanted to go. But when you get old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will fasten your belt and take you where you will not want to go”.
19 📚He said this, indicating the kind of death by which he would glorify God✭. And when he had spoken this, he said to him, “Follow me”.
20 📚✭Then Peter, turning around, saw coming behind them the disciple whom Jesus loved, who also had leaned against his chest at supper and said, “Lord, who is the one who betrays you?”
21 📚✭Peter, seeing him, said to Jesus, “Lord, and what will this man do?”
22 📚✭Jesus said to him, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow me”.
23 📚Then this statement went around among the brethren, that disciple would not die. But 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?”✭
24 📚✭This is the disciple who testifies of these things, and wrote these things. And we✭ know that his testimony is true. 25 📚And there are also many other things✭ which Jesus did. If every one of them would be written down, I suppose even the world itself could not contain the books✭ that would be written. Amen.