The Third Sunday of Easter Year C

The Third Sunday of Easter

Zephaniah 3.14–20
Acts 9.1–20
John 21.1–19

This final chapter of John’s Gospel is a chapter full of echoes, back to the earthly ministry of Jesus and forward to the life of the Church after the ascension. For example, compare the story of the miraculous catch of fish here in John’s Gospel with the stories in Mark and Luke of the calling of Peter, and you will see all kinds of similarities – you might like to look, in particular, at Luke 5.1–11, which is not, according to Luke, the first time that Peter sees Jesus, but is the moment at which he makes a commitment...