EARLY WISDOM GOSPELS 103So Shimon Kefa went on board and dragged the net onto the land, filled with
big fish, a hundred fifty-three of them, yet with so many the net didn't tear.
Yeshua said to them,
"Come have breakfast."
None of the students dared ask, "Who are you?" knowing that it was the
lord.
Yeshua came and took the bread and gave it to them, and also the fish.
This was already the third time that Yeshua appeared to the students after
he was raised from the dead.
YESHUA QUESTIONS SHIMON KEFA'S LOVE
So when they had breakfasted, Yeshua said to Shimon Kefa,
"Shimon son of Yohanan, do you love me
more than they do?"
Shimon said to him, "Yes, lord, you know that I love you."
Yeshua said to him,
"Feed my lambs."
He asked Shimon a second time,
"Shimon son of Yohanan, do you love me?"
Shimon said, "Yes, lord, you know that I love you."
He said to Shimon son of Yohanan for the third time,
"Do you love me?"
Kefa was hurt that he had asked him for the third time, "Do you love me?"
And he said to him, "Lord, you know all things, you know that I love you."^79
Yeshua replies,
"Graze my sheep."YESHUA FORETELLS SHIMON KEFA'S DEATH
And he said to him,
"Truly, truly I say to you,
when you were younger,
you fastened your own belt
and walked about where you wished.- Peter's threefold profession of love parallels his earlier threefold denial.