This was to Peter, evidently following up the message, "And Peter." No one knows what passed between them at that interview, but again we mark the tenderness and compassion of the Good Shepherd, the Great Shepherd risen from the dead. (Heb. 13:20). Comparing 1 Cor. 15:5 with Luke 24:34, this is made plain. We read: -" The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon."
We gather that Peter was seen by our Lord before He saw the eleven on the evening of the first day of the week, when He rose from the dead. This care of our Lord for His wandering sheep is surely an encouragement to every backslider to seek the Lord afresh, and feel that, if He could and did restore such a backslider as Peter, He can restore any backslider.