Contradictions and Paradoxes in John 21:15

Check out Contradictions Catalog of John 21:15 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts John 21:15. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to John, this verse shows Jesus asking Peter if he loves Him, and when Peter says yes, Jesus tells him to take care of His followers, like a shepherd cares for sheep. It means that loving Jesus also means helping and looking after other people.

John 21:15: So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, [son] of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.

Contradiction with John 15:17

Jesus instructs to love one another as He loved us, potentially contradicting any hierarchy in love.

John 15:17: These things I command you, that ye love one another.

Contradiction with Matthew 6:24

No man can serve two masters; contrasts with singular devotion emphasized by Jesus to Peter.

Matthew 6:24: No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Contradiction with Luke 14:26

The demand for hate towards family to be Jesus' disciple contrasts with feeding lambs out of love.

Luke 14:26: If any [man] come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Contradiction with 1 John 2:15

Love not the world, which could contrast with showing love through actions like feeding lambs.

1 John 2:15: Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
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