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Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - John 21:1-25

John 21:2 . There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, a word which designates a twin; and Nathanael, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples. Here are seven; the four absent ones might be Matthew, Jude, Simeon, and James. This college of apostles were men of honest trades. Let us talk no more of blood and noble birth: “the Lord hath regarded the lowly, and sent the rich empty away.” Rupert contends that Bartholomew was Nathanael, a man learned in the law. John... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - John 21:24-25

John 21:24-25This is the disciple which testifieth of these thingsThe Gospel of St.JohnI. ITS TRANSCENDENT THEME.“The things which Jesus did.” 1. Their number--“many.” 2. Their variety--“other.” 3. Their importance. So deep had been the impression made by them that they were even then remembered and could have been written down. 4. Their significance. “The world would not contain,” &c. II. ITS UNAMED AUTHOR--the disciple whom Jesus loved. That this was John 1. The Gospel indirectly attests.... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - John 21:25

25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen. Ver. 25. I suppose that even the world itself, &c. ] Nec Christus, nec caelum patitur hyperbolen, saith one. In speaking of Christ or his kingdom, a man can hardly hyperbolize. Much had St John said of our Saviour, yet nothing to what he might have said. All that ever he did was divine, and... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - John 21:25

there: John 20:30, John 20:31, Job 26:14, Psalms 40:5, Psalms 71:15, Ecclesiastes 12:12, Matthew 11:5, Acts 10:38, Acts 20:35, Hebrews 11:32 that even: This is a very strong eastern expression to represent the number of miracles which Jesus wrought. But however strong and strange it may appear to us of the western world, we find sacred and other authors using hyperboles of the like kind and signification. See Numbers 13:33, Deuteronomy 1:28, Daniel 4:11, Ecclesiastes 1:15. Basnage gives a... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - John 21:25

And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.If they were to be written particularly — Every fact, and all the circumstances of it.I suppose — This expression, which softens the hyperbole, shows that St. John wrote this verse. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 21:24-25

The attestation and conclusion, John 21:24-25. Against the arrogant pretensions of modern factitious criticism, “criticism run mad,” we repudiate the notion that these verses are added by a later hand It is a modern invention, that about the Ephesian Church giving us this testimony to John! His own spirit and style breathe in every clause. This, is certain, that if it were by any other hand, the spurious writer does his best, with great success, to counterfeit the authorship he professes... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 21:25

25. The world itself could not contain the books The world, in John’s use of the term, perhaps always signifies, not the physical frame of creation, but, the living world. And sometimes he uses it, as used in modern times, in a narrow and conventional sense, when we speak of the literary world the fashionable world. Thus in John 12:19, The world has gone after him. In this passage we understand him as speaking of the book-world, which was then not a very large world, and could not... read more

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