Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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Jesus Appears to Seven Disciples
1 After this, Jesus appeared
once more to his disciples at
Lake Tiberias. This is how it happened.
2 Simon Peter, Thomas
(called the Twin), Nathanael (the
one from Cana in Galilee), the sons
of Zebedee, and two other disciples
of Jesus were all together.
3 Simon
Peter said to the others, “I am going
fishing.”
3 “We will come with you,” they
told him. So they went out in a boat,
but all that night they did not catch a
thing. note
4 As the sun was rising, Jesus
stood at the water's edge, but the
disciples did not know that it was
Jesus.
5 Then he asked them, “Young
men, haven't you caught anything?”
5 “Not a thing,” they answered.
6 He said to them, “Throw your
net out on the right side of the boat,
and you will catch some.” So they
threw the net out and could not pull
it back in, because they had caught
so many fish. note
7 The disciple whom Jesus loved
said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” When
Peter heard that it was the Lord, he
wrapped his outer garment around
him (for he had taken his clothes off)
and jumped into the water.
8 The
other disciples came to shore in the
boat, pulling the net full of fish. They
were not very far from land, about a
hundred yards away.
9 When they
stepped ashore, they saw a charcoal
fire there with fish on it and some
bread.
10 Then Jesus said to them,
“Bring some of the fish you have
just caught.”
11 Simon Peter went aboard and
dragged the net ashore full of big
fish, a hundred and fifty-three in all;
even though there were so many,
still the net did not tear.
12 Jesus said
to them, “Come and eat.” None of
the disciples dared ask him, “Who
are you?” because they knew it was
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the Lord.
13 So Jesus went over, took
the bread, and gave it to them; he
did the same with the fish.
14 This, then, was the third time Jesus
appeared to the disciples after
he was raised from death.
Jesus and Peter
15 After they had eaten, Jesus said
to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John,
do you love me more than these others
do?”
15 “Yes, Lord,” he answered, “you
know that I love you.”
15 Jesus said to him, “Take care of
my lambs.”
16 A second time Jesus
said to him, “Simon son of John, do
you love me?”
16 “Yes, Lord,” he answered, “you
know that I love you.”
16 Jesus said to him, “Take care of
my sheep.”
17 A third time Jesus
said, “Simon son of John, do you
love me?”
17 Peter became sad because Jesus
asked him the third time, “Do you
love me?” and so he said to him,
“Lord, you know everything; you
know that I love you!”
17 Jesus said to him, “Take care of
my sheep.
18 I am telling you the
truth: when you were young, you
used to get ready and go anywhere
you wanted to; but when you are
old, you will stretch out your hands
and someone else will tie you up and
take you where you don't want to
go.”
19 (In saying this, Jesus was indicating
the way in which Peter
would die and bring glory to God.)
Then Jesus said to him, “Follow
me!”
Jesus and the Other Disciple
20 Peter turned around and saw behind
him that other disciple, whom
Jesus loved—the one who had
leaned close to Jesus at the meal and
had asked, “Lord, who is going to
betray you?” note
21 When Peter saw him,
he asked Jesus, “Lord, what about
this man?”
22 Jesus answered him, “If I want
him to live until I come, what is that
to you? Follow me!”
23 So a report spread among the
followers of Jesus that this disciple
would not die. But Jesus did not say
he would not die; he said, “If I want
him to live until I come, what is that
to you?”
24 He is the disciple who spoke of
these things, the one who also wrote
them down; and we know that what
he said is true.
Conclusion
25 Now, there are many other
things that Jesus did. If they were all
written down one by one, I suppose
that the whole world could not hold
the books that would be written.
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Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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