Today's Reading | April 26, 2025
John 21:15–25
Introduction John 21:15–25: Jesus speaks to Simon Peter, and three times he calls on Peter to care for Jesus’s lambs and sheep (verses 15–17). Scholars often understand the three questions about Peter’s love for Jesus as a counterbalance to Peter’s earlier three denials of Jesus (see John 18:17, 25–27, and Luke 22:54–62 from the April 17 reading). Today’s Key Verse:…
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