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Title: Liebe und Freundschaft im Johannesevangelium
Subtitle: Zum alttestamentlichen Hintergrund von Joh 21,15-19
Author(s): BÖHLER, Dieter
Journal: Biblica
Volume: 96    Issue: 4   Date: 2015   
Pages: 599-608
DOI: 10.2143/BIB.96.4.3183440

Abstract :
This article argues that Jesus' threefold question to Peter in John 21,15-17 is not the same question posed three times but, rather, three different questions of which only the last one gets a clear 'Yes'. Jesus asks Peter if by now he had reached that love which is ready to give one's life for a friend. In John 13,37 Peter had professed loudmouthed that he was ready. In John 21,15-17 he acknowledges that he is not ready yet.

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