Letter 103

Isidore of PelusiumUnknown|isidore pelusium

Why Our Lord after His Resurrection questioned Peter three times about love. Our Lord’s threefold questioning of Peter about love is not a reason to suspect ignorance on the part of the Master (let certain persons not think amiss in this way), but the good Healer expelled the threefold denial by means of the threefold assent.

Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.