Open English Translation YHN (JHN) Chapter 21

21 After all this, Yeshua revealed himself again to his apprentices at Lake Galilee. It happened like this: 2 Simon Peter, Thomas nicknamed ‘Twin’, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other apprentices had gathered together 3 when Simon Peter said that he was going fishing and the others said that they’d join him.[ref]

So they went off and got in the boat, but they didn’t catch anything that night.

4 When the dawn was approaching, Yeshua was standing there on the shore, but they didn’t know that it was him. 5 He called out, “Hey, young fellas. Don’t you have any fish?”

“None.” they answered.

6 Then he said, “Throw the net out over the right side of the boat and you’ll find some.” So they did it and they caught so many fish that the net was too heavy to pull back in.[ref]

7 Now the apprentice that Yeshua loved said to Peter, “It’s the master!” When Simon Peter heard that, he put on his robe (because he didn’t have it on), and jumped overboard into the lake. 8 The other apprentices followed in the little boat dragging the net behind them because they were only about 100m out from the shore. 9 When they went up the beach, they saw some bread there and a charcoal fire with fish cooking on it 10 and Yeshua told them, “Bring some of the fish that you just caught.”

11 So Simon Peter went and dragged the net up onto the beach. Amazingly it hadn’t torn even though it contained 153 large fish. 12 Then Yeshua said, “Now, come and have breakfast.” But none of the apprentices dared to ask who he was, because they figured it must be the master. 13 Yeshua brought the bread to them and shared it around, and then likewise for the fish.

14 This was now the third time that Yeshua had appeared to his apprentices since he’d come back to life.

15 While they were eating, Yeshua asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Yohan, do you love me more than these?”

Peter answered, “Yes, master, you know that I love you.”

Yeshua responded, “Feed my lambs.” 16 Then he asked again, “Simon, son of Yohan, do you love me?”

Peter replied, “Yes, master, you know that I love you.”

Yeshua responded, “Shepherd my sheep.” 17 Then he asked a third time, “Simon, son of Yohan, do you love me?”

Peter was now upset that he’d been asked a third time if he loved him, and he answered, “Master, you know everything.”

“Feed my sheep,” Yeshua responded. 18 “I can assure you that while you are young, you dress yourself and go wherever you want to go, but as you age, you’ll be stretching out your hands and others will dress you and will take you where you don’t want to go.” 19 When he said this, Yeshua was indicating how Peter would die honouring God, and he told Peter, “Keep following me.”

20 When Peter turned around he saw that the apprentice that Yeshua loved was following them—the one who’d leaned on Yeshua’s chest during the supper and asked who the one was who would turn Yeshua over.[ref] 21 Noticing him, Peter asked Yeshua, “Master, what about that one?”

22 But Yeshua replied, “If I want him to stay alive until I come back, what business would it be of yours? You just stay following me.”

23 As a result of that, a rumour went around the others that that one wouldn’t die, but Yeshua never said that. (He only said, “If I want him to stay alive until I come back, what business would it be of yours?”)

24 This author is the apprentice that testifies about these things—the one who wrote this down and whose account is true. 25 (There were also many other things that Yeshua did, which if they were all written down then even the world itself wouldn’t have room for all the books that would need to be written.)