The Lake of Galilee was a special place for Jesus, where He performed some great miracles and where He spent much of His life and ministry. It was where He called several of the disciples to follow Him and it was where He chose to restore Peter publicly after he had publicly denied Jesus. Here Jesus tenderly and yet pointedly spoke to Peter, encouraging and admonishing him to love Him and minister to those around him. While Jesus did this in person to Peter, it is an example of what He will do for us when we fall away from Him.