John 21:22

John 21:22

The Beloved Disciple and His Book

20 Then Peter, turning around, saw the disciple ^awhom Jesus loved following, ^bwho also had leaned on His breast at the supper, and said, “Lord, who is the one who betrays You?”

21 Peter, seeing him, said to Jesus, “But Lord, what about this man?”

22 Jesus said to him, “If I¹ will that he remain ^atill I come, what is that to you? You follow Me.”

23 Then this saying went out among the brethren that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but, “If I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you?”

24 This is the disciple who ^atestifies of these things, and wrote these things; and we know that his testimony is true.

25 ^aAnd there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, ^bI suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen.

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John 21:22 If I will that he tarry till I come. This is spoken of John, and the words have caused much discussion. They surely convey the idea that John would remain on the earth, after the other apostles depart, until the Lord came once more. He did linger long after all the other apostles were gone. It is the testimony of church history that he did not die until about the close of the first century, many years after the other apostles were at rest. He "tarried"; did the Lord come to him? At least sixty years after the Lord spoke these words John was an exile on the isle of Patmos. There on the Lord's day he writes: "I heard a great voice" (Revelation 1:10), and "I saw one like the Son of man" (Revelation 1:13), blazing in such glory that, filled with awe, he "fell at his feet as dead" (Revelation 1:17). Then follow these words of the Savior, the seven letters, and the visions of Revelation. Here was a visible coming and John tarried until that coming. He alone of the Twelve saw the Lord, after his ascension, once more on the earth.

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