John 21:2-19 NIV

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 21:1-25

John 21:0 We Learn from this Chapter I. The wide range of the pastoral office. Whenever the minister is exclusively a fisherman and neglects the labour of the shepherd, he is only doing half his work. He is like a man in a boat who seeks to propel it with one oar, and who succeeds only in making it spin round in a ceaseless circle. He will make no progress, and his people will lack intelligence. II. The true motive for Christian work, "Lovest thou Me?" The most potent principle in the Christian... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 21:3

John 21:3 I. The lot of Christ's disciples is usually a life of toil. In this, there is little difference between the Christian and the worldling; if anything, the difference is in the worldling's favour. The Christian is constrained to keep the king's highway, the beaten path of industry and straightforward honesty, and cannot shorten the journey by leaping fences, or trying an occasional near-cut through his neighbour's property. An omnipotent Master might have emancipated His servants from... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 21:7

John 21:7 I. A weary night, but Christ came in the morning. So at first we are apt to say; but it would be putting it more correctly if we said that Christ, who had been present all the night, allowed Himself to be seen in the morning. He was now risen from the dead, and had put on that glorious body which evades our grosser sense, and needs an act of will to make it visible. II. A Saviour habitually recollected and realised was the distinctive feature of apostolic piety; not to the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 21:12

John 21:12 I. The Recognition. Three things contributed to it. (1) The love. Who, but One, so busies Himself about His redeemed? (2) The wisdom. Who, but One, could know or even dare to advise upon a matter to all appearance so casual and so fortuitous? (3) The strength. The fish were not there till Christ spoke. He, the Lord of creation, brought them to the net. II. The entertainment. The recognition has brought together the Host and the guests. So at His table Christ Himself is spiritually... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 21:15

John 21:15 The last Scene with Peter I. Every one has felt that the threefold question of Christ to Peter, alluded to the threefold betrayal. There lay in the question a mild rebuke, so exquisitely given that it would not sting, but soften the heart. It was a trial also; it was so spoken as to try whether the apostle had the same boastful spirit. Would he now exalt himself, put himself forward as the first? Was the element of self-conceit still mingled with his impulsive affection? We see in... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 21:15-17

John 21:15-17 Notice: I. The connection of two things: "Lovest thou Me," "Feed My sheep." It is love to the Saviour which has been the secret of each successful ministry. It is this which makes the patient and longsuffering Teacher put up with the waywardness, the selfishness, the ingratitude and inattention of His scholars; and it is this which made Peter himself and Paul so gentle and much-enduring among converts, very quarrelsome and carnal, very crude and un-Christlike; for even amongst... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 21:15-22

John 21:15-22 Peter's Restoration I. The question is about love. It carries in it a thorough assurance of the forgiveness of sin and the healing of backsliding; coming as it does from Him whom the sin has pierced, and the backsliding grieved afresh. It is the question of the injured Friend and the grieved Brother. It is He who still, in spite of all, Himself answering for all, puts the question, "Lovest thou Me." II. The question is about the degree of Peter's love. Why should Peter be expected... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 21:17

John 21:17 We have here three points; love's examination, love's answer, and love's evidence; and we purpose to look at these three points of love in their order. I. Observe then, first, what Christ did not do with Peter. Christ did not examine Peter continually all his life, as to the state of his heart; but upon a distinct occasion, for a distinct object. There was nothing subtle, and metaphysical, and perplexing in our Saviour's mode of examining Peter's heart. He did not wind His probe... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 21:18-19

John 21:18-19 The warning of what awaited him, which the Lord here gave to Peter, was divinely adapted to his peculiar cast of mind, and in conjunction with the words, "Follow Me," was fitted at once to console and solemnise the apostle. I. "When thou wast young thou girdedst thyself." Rapidity and self-reliance have always been your way. "But" and there must have been something in the way in which this was spoken which conveyed a peculiar import, for it was at once understood as predicting to... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 21:19

John 21:19 Follow Christ I. You shall never be far from the Father. That pleasant countenance with which the Father beheld the well-beloved Son extends to all His followers to all who, in faith and affection, gather round Him or go after Him, like this little band beside the Lake of Galilee. II. You will learn to do things as Christ did them. You will learn to feed the sheep or the lambs as He fed them; warning, reproving, exhorting, with a kindred longsuffering. You will learn to be calm... read more

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 21:1-25

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 21:3

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 21:7

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 21:12

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 21:15

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 21:15-17

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 21:15-22

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 21:17

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 21:18-19

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 21:19

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