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What did Christ say to Peter? It is founded on Christ and through Peter's answer to the questions that Christ asked, after Peter answered, then Christ put out other admonitions, instructions.

For example,

Christ: "Do you love me?"

Peter: Yes, Lord, you know I love you.

Christ: Then tend my sheep.

Can someone help me out on the other two quotes. I'm not remembering right now.

To be fair Jesus specifically spoke to Simon, son of John. He did not call him Peter. Wonder why?

John 21:
[15] When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs."
[16] A second time he said to him, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." He said to him, "Tend my sheep."
[17] He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, "Do you love me?" And he said to him, "Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.

Do you suppose Jesus put Simon, son of John through the wringer three times because he had denied Him three times?

Do you suppose Jesus put Simon, son of John through the wringer three times because he had denied Him three times?

Ringer! Why Reggie, Jesus was Resurrected at this point. Simon, son of John, is receiving his marching orders from Christ Himself! He is being told what his mission is. He has learned his lesson well. The Church declares this as Peter receiving his commission: "The primacy was given to Peter directly and immediately. So the Church has always understood--and so Vatican I defined: 'We therefore teach and declare that according to the testimony of the Gospel, the primacy of jurisdiction over the universal Church of God was immediately and directly promised and given to Blessed Peter the Apostle by Christ Our Lord. [...] And it was Simon Peter alone that Jesus after His Resurrection bestowed the jurisdiction of chief pastor and ruler over all his fold in the words "Feed my lambs; feed my sheep.' (see Pastor aeternus, Chap. 1; Lumen Gentium, 18)

Read John carefully. Jesus has much to say to the Apostles at the Last Supper but He tells Peter that his job is to keep his brother's united. Christ is telling him he will be sifted like wheat and that it is Peter's job to continue the unicity of the Church.

That is what is so sad about the proliferation of more and more "confessions" as the Authority given to Peter is ignored and everyone can now go in search of his own truth in a Bible which they interpret personally.