I.
After a filling breakfast of fried fish and bread Peter and Jesus have a conversation.

You might want to contrast this conversation with the earlier conversation Jesus has with Peter as presented in Matthew 4:18-22.

II.
John 21:15-19 (NRSVue)

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my lambs.” A second time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Tend my sheep.” He said to him the third time, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” Peter felt hurt because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” And he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep. Very truly, I tell you, when you were younger, you used to fasten your own belt and to go wherever you wished. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will fasten a belt around you and take you where you do not wish to go.” (He said this to indicate the kind of death by which he would glorify God.) After this he said to him, “Follow me.”

III.
What is similar in the two conversations? How do they differ?

What has changed that at one time Jesus tells Peter if he follows he will be a “fisher of people,” and now he will be a shepherd?

charles
{ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est}