13. UJesu weza, wathabatha isinkwa, wabapha, nezinhlanzi futhi.
14. Lokho sekungokwesithathu uJesu ebonakaliswa kubafundi, esevukile kwabafileyo.
15. Khona sebedlile uJesu wathi kuSimoni Petru: “Simoni kaJona, uyangithanda kunalaba na?”Wathi kuye: “Yebo, Nkosi, uyazi wena ukuthi ngiyakuthanda.”Wathi kuye: “Yipha amawundlu ami.”
16. Wabuye wathi kuye ngokwesibili: “Simoni kaJona, uyangithanda na?”Wathi kuye: “Yebo, Nkosi, uyazi wena ukuthi ngiyakuthanda.”Wathi kuye: “Yalusa izimvu zami.”
17. Wathi kuye ngokwesithathu: “Simoni kaJona, uyangithanda na?”UPetru wadabuka ngokuba wathi kuye ngokwesithathu: “Uyangithanda na?” Wathi kuye: “Nkosi, wazi konke wena, uyazi ukuthi ngiyakuthanda.”UJesu wathi kuye: “Yipha izimvu zami.
18. Ngiqinisile, ngiqinisile ngithi kuwe: Usemusha wawugqoka, uhambe lapho uthanda khona; kepha nxa usumdala, uyakwelula izandla zakho, omunye akugqokise, akuyise lapho ungathandi khona.
19. Kepha wakusho lokho ekhomba ukufa azakumdumisa uNkulunkulu ngakho.” Eseshilo lokho wathi: “Ngilandele.”
20. UPetru ephenduka wabona umfundi uJesu amthandayo elandela, oyena futhi wayencike esifubeni sakhe ekudleni, nowathi: “Nkosi, ngubani ozakukukhaphela na?”
21. Kuthe uPetru embona lowo, wathi kuJesu: “Nkosi, kepha lona, pho?”
22. UJesu wathi kuye: “Uma ngithanda ukuba ahlale ngize ngifike, kuyini kuwe na? Wena landela mina.”
23. Ngakho-ke leli zwi laphumela kubazalwane lokuthi lowo mfundi akayikufa. Kanti uJesu akashongo ukuthi akayikufa kodwa ukuthi: “Uma ngithanda ukuba ahlale ngize ngifike, kuyini kuwe na?”
24. Nguye lo mfundi ofakaza ngalezi zinto nokulobile lokhu; siyazi ukuthi ubufakazi bakhe buqinisile.
25. Kukhona nezinye izinto eziningi azenza uJesu; uma zilotshiwe zona ngazinye, ngithi nezwe lonke lingezanele izincwadi ezingalotshwa.