John 21:15
Douay-Rheims
When therefore they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter: Simon son of John, lovest thou me more than these? He saith to him: Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him: Feed my lambs.
Alcuin of York
To feed the sheep is to support the believers in Christ from falling from the faith, to provide earthly sustenance for those under us, to preach and exemplify withal our preaching by our lives, to resist adversaries, to correct wanderers.
Source details
A.D. 804 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 21:15-17
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.