The Bible is the world’s best-selling book, every year, year after year.

In the UK alone, 6.3 million Bibles were sold in 2025. According to data, around 250,000 to 300,000 Bibles are sold or distributed around the world every day. That works out to be three Bibles sold or distributed somewhere in the world every second. That’s a phenomenal number.

What’s even more staggering is just who features in the Bible. For a book that is so popular, so far-reaching, it really does feature some very ordinary people. It’s almost embarrassing how normal and actually how broken some of the folk are in the Bible.

For such a profound, timeless book, when I read about people who lost their temper, cheated, got jealous, lied, stole, judged, argued, betrayed even, I take comfort. It’s not just me that’s a loser, that gets it wrong, that lets myself down. Even those who spent the most amount of time with Jesus got it wrong.

I have been looking at the life of Peter lately. Such an interesting character. There’s so much we could say about him: the story of him walking on water, catching all the fish, preaching to the early church and seeing thousands make a decision to follow the risen Jesus.

But I want to focus on the moment Jesus commissions him on the beach. The story is found in John 21:15-19.

What’s so amazing about this is that it happens after Jesus has been crucified and resurrected. It also happens after Peter betrayed Jesus and disowned him. Peter, one of Jesus’ closest friends, a keen student of the rabbi, really let himself down, messed up and disowned his friend publicly. A painful moment.

Yet when Jesus meets Peter again, he doesn’t reject or humiliate him. Three times Jesus asks Peter if he loves him. Peter replies: “Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.” Jesus tells him: “Feed my sheep.”

Peter’s failure wasn’t the end of his story. The man who had publicly denied knowing Jesus would go on to become one of the key figures in the early church.

Instead of taking offence, Jesus loves Peter. Jesus loves the ordinary, weak, broken. Come to him today, he can handle your brokenness.