What Concerns Jesus the Most

The final part of the final chapter of the Gospel of John is curious in what is described in it. From a one-on-one conversation between Peter and Jesus to a couple of explanatory notes about Peter's future and a weird rumour that had been circulating, the chapter makes the book come to an end in a much less satisfactory way than the previous chapter did. Furthermore, the typical approach we take to this chapter in exploring its significance and its message often causes us to miss the real point here, the bottom line to what it is that concerned Jesus the most . . .