‘That disciple whom Jesus loved therefore says to Peter, “It is the Lord”.

John was one of those who had witnessed the similar event before and the conviction dawned on him that the man on the shore must be the risen Jesus. Note however his description of Jesus as ‘the Lord'. They had begun to think of Jesus in a new light. The reference to ‘the disciple whom Jesus loved' is typically Johannine (compare John 13:23; John 19:26; John 20:2). It is to be seen as the awed statement of a man overwhelmed by the act that Jesus loved him

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