John 21:24

John 21:24

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.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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That is (outov estin). The one just mentioned in verse John 21:20, "the disciple whom Jesus loved."

And wrote these things (kai o grayav tauta). Here there is a definite statement that the Beloved Disciple wrote this book.

We know (oidamen). The plural here seems intentional as the identification and endorsement of a group of disciples who know the author and wish to vouch for his identity and for the truthfulness of his witness. Probably we see here a verse added by a group of elders in Ephesus where John had long laboured.

**Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 21:24:**

John 13:23
John 18:15
2 Peter 3:1
1 John 1:1
3 John 1:12

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