Dieter Böhler, «Liebe und Freundschaft im Johannesevangelium. Zum alttestamentlichen Hintergrund von Joh 21,15-19» biblica, Vol. 96 (2015) 599-608 page 608

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Dieter Böhler, «Liebe und Freundschaft im Johannesevangelium. Zum alttestamentlichen Hintergrund von Joh 21,15-19», Vol. 96 (2015) 599-608

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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07_AN_Böhler_599-608_cop_599-608 10/12/15 11:08 Pagina 608 608 DIETER BÖHLER 608 Am Ende geht die Sache, wie Augustinus formuliert, für Petrus so aus “dass er in vollkommener Liebe für dessen Namen stirbt, mit dem zu sterben er in verdrehter Voreiligkeit versprochen hatte” 29. Hochschule Sankt Georgen Dieter BÖHLER Offenbacher Landstraße 224 D-60599 Frankfurt am Main SUMMARY 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. proba,twn. 10,17: Dia. tou/to, me o` path.r avgapa/| o[ti evgw. ti,qhmi th.n yuch,n mou. Vgl. 10,18. 29 Augustinus, In Io. CXXIII 4: “hunc invenit exitum, ut pro eius nomine perfecta dilectione moreretur, cum quo se moriturum perversa festinatione promiserat”.