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Welcome to Week 16 here with the Daily Blade. We're going to cover in order to get ready

for Resurrection Weekend, we are going to be in John 21 this entire week. John 21 is one of

my favorite passages in the Bible. It's got so much for us. And a part of it is we're going to

look at the life of Peter. Man, I hope studying the life of Peter, or at least some of the

incidences in his life make you feel better about being a disciple because he is just the eternal

screw-up. And yet God uses screw-ups like Peter and like me all the time to do infinitely more

than any of us ever hoped or

imagine. What you have to understand is John 21 is post-crucifixion, post-resurrection. So Jesus has

showed up a couple of times to the disciples, but the disciples still don't know exactly what

they are going to do with their life.

Jesus has yet to give them the great commission, and so they're just kind of figuring out

what to do. So John chapter 21, we'll pick it up in verse one, says this, and after this,

Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the sea of Tiberius. And he revealed himself in this way.

Simon Peter, Thomas, called the twin, Nathaniel of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee,

by the way, that's James and John, and two others of his disciples were together. Now, part of what

I love about this is John is writing this later in his life, and though the Bible is the holy inspired word of God, it is also just an actual historical account of what

was happening.

And John, I don't know, he either doesn't want to mention those two guys or maybe he can't

remember who it is.

And the reason he would do this is because this is an actual historical account.

This isn't a fiction or a fairy tale.

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