Simon Peter invites the other disciples to go fishing with him. So he along with, Nathaniel, Thomas, James, John and two others go to the Sea of Tiberius, which is also called the Sea of Galilee depending on what area you are from. They went out on the boat and caught nothing all night. At morning light Jesus stood in the shore and asked, “Children have you caught anything?” They said no, and he said cast your net on the right side of the boat. They did and the net was immediately full of fish, but again the net doesn’t break . John, recognizing Jesus, says, “It is the Lord,” and Peter puts on this coat and jumps over board. The rest of the disciples wrestle the fish into the boat. On the shore, they see that Jesus has a fire and food cooking. He invites them to have breakfast with him. 

After they eat, Jesus asks Peter if he loves him more than these. Peter says, “You know I do.” Jesus says, “Feed my lambs”. Two more times Jesus asks him if he loves him and two more times Peter says he does and Jesus tells him to take care of his sheep. It grieves Peter to be asked three times, but we can see his three betrayals being matched one for one. Also, the proof of love of Christ is in the act of caring for others. Jesus then prophecies Peter’s death and tells him to follow him. 

Peter then asks about John, and Jesus asks, “What is it to you if he remains until I come back?” There becomes a rumor after that John would live forever, but John reassures the reader that Jesus only said, “if.” John does survive the longest and writes the last book of Bible, the Revelation. The key message here is that we are individually asked to follow Christ and not compare ourselves to one another. Everyone has a different path to walk. 

John ends the book by saying that his testimony is true and many other things happened but, “I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.”

Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the shore; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. John 21:4