These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
John 21
Brit Hadashah 25 verses
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After this, again showed Himself to the disciples. It was at the Lake of Tiberias. The circumstances were as follows.
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Simon was with , called the Twin, of Cana in , the sons of Zabdi, and two others of the Master’s disciples.
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- 3 Simon said to them, “I am going fishing.” “We will go too,” said they. So they set out and went on board their boat; but they caught nothing that night.
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When, however, day was now dawning, stood on the beach, though the disciples did not that it was .
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He called to them. “Children,” He said, “have you any food there?” “No,” they answered.
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“Throw the net in on the right hand side,” He said, “and you will find fish.” So they threw the net in, and now they could scarcely drag it along for the quantity of fish.
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- 7 This made the whom loved say to , “It is the Master.” Simon therefore, when he heard the words, “It is the Master,” drew on his fisherman’s shirt—for he had not been wearing it—put on his girdle, and sprang into the water.
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But the rest of the disciples came in the small boat (for they were not far from land—only about a hundred yards off)
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As soon as they landed, they saw a charcoal fire burning there, with fish broiling on it, and bread close by.
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- 10 told them to fetch some of the fish which they had just caught.
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So Simon went on board the boat and drew the net ashore full of large fish, 153 in number; and yet, although there were so many, the net had not broken.
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“Come this way and have breakfast,” said . But not one of the disciples ventured to question Him as to who He was, for they felt sure that it was the Master.
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Then came and took the bread and gave them some, and the fish in the same way.
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This was now the third occasion on which showed Himself to the disciples after He had risen from among the dead.
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When they had finished breakfast, asked Simon , “Simon, son of , do you me more than these others do?” “Yes, Master,” was his answer; “you that you are dear to me.” “Then feed my lambs,” replied .
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1 John 4:19 1 Timothy 4:15-16 Ephesians 6:24 Isaiah 40:11 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 Galatians 5:6 John 16:27 1 Peter 2:25 Hebrews 4:13 1 Peter 2:2 Hebrews 13:20 Hebrews 12:12-13 John 8:42 Romans 14:1 1 Peter 5:1-4 1 Peter 1:8 John 14:15-24 Romans 15:1 John 21:7 1 Corinthians 8:11 1 Corinthians 16:21-22 Ezekiel 34:2-10 Matthew 10:37 Jeremiah 3:15 2 Kings 20:3 Mark 14:29 Matthew 26:33 Matthew 18:10 Ephesians 4:14 John 21:16-17 Revelation 2:23 2 Samuel 7:20 1 Corinthians 3:1-3 John 1:42 Genesis 33:13 Matthew 26:35 Psalm 78:70-72 Luke 12:32 Luke 22:32 Matthew 16:17 Matthew 25:34-45 1 John 5:1 Ezekiel 34:23 Acts 20:28 John 21:12 Jeremiah 23:4 John 13:37 - 16 Again a second time He asked him, “Simon, son of , do you me?” “Yes, Master,” he said, “you that you are dear to me.” “Then be a shepherd to my sheep,” He said.
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A third time put the question: “Simon, son of , am I dear to you?” It grieved that asked him the third time, “Am I dear to you?” “Master,” he replied, “you everything, you can see that you are dear to me.” “Then feed my much-loved sheep,” said .
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John 16:30 John 13:38 John 21:15-16 Mark 14:72 Revelation 2:23 3 John 1:7-8 1 Peter 1:6 Matthew 26:73-75 Luke 22:61-62 2 Corinthians 8:8-9 1 Kings 17:18 Psalm 17:3 Matthew 25:40 2 Corinthians 1:12 John 18:27 2 Peter 1:12-15 Acts 15:8 Revelation 3:19 Ephesians 4:30 Jeremiah 17:10 Acts 1:24 Job 31:4-6 1 John 3:16-24 2 Peter 3:1 2 Corinthians 2:4-7 Joshua 22:22 John 12:8 Lamentations 3:33 1 Chronicles 29:17 Psalm 7:8-9 John 15:10 John 14:15 John 2:24-25 John 18:4 2 Corinthians 7:8-11 -
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“In most solemn I tell you that whereas, when you were young, you used to put on your girdle and walk whichever way you chose, when you have grown old you will stretch out your arms and some one else will put a girdle round you and carry you where you have no wish to go.”
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- 19 This He said to indicate the kind of death by which that would bring to ; and after speaking thus He said to him, “Follow me.”
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turned round and noticed the whom loved following—the one who at the supper had leaned back on His breast and had asked, “Master, who is it that is betraying you?”
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On seeing him, asked , “And, Master, what about him?”
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- 22 “If I desire him to remain till I come,” replied , “what concern is that of yours? You, yourself, must follow me.”
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Hence the report spread among the brethren that that would never die. Yet did not say, “He is not to die,” but, “If I desire him to remain till I come, what concern is that of yours?”
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That is the who gives his testimony as to these matters, and has written this history; and we that his testimony is true.
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But there are also many other things which did—so vast a number indeed that if they were all described in detail, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would have to be written.
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