John 20:30

§ 157. ST. JOHN’S FIRST CONCLUSION, John 20:30-31 .

30. Many other signs The Greek word for signs here is often rendered miracles; for the miracles of Jesus were all signs, indicating the divinity of their author.

In the presence of his disciples The appointed witnesses to testify them to the world. See note on Luke 1:2.

This book The entire Gospel. From which it appears that we are not to infer that the Evangelists were ignorant of a given fact because they omit to notice it. It is no presumption against the truth of the narrative because it is given by but one Evangelist. It is no proof that the Lord’s Supper was not instituted because John does not mention it.

That ye might believe This ye addresses every reader to the end of the world. It speaks from John to the person that now peruses this commentary, inviting him to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and

have life through his name. Jesus is the Christ Is the Messiah. Christ lived, his apostles preached, and his Evangelists wrote, that the world might shape its conceptions to the true idea of the Messiah, not as the emancipator of the nation, but as the Saviour of the world. We have in these two verses what the best scholars of modern times consider to be a proper summary and ending of the book. The chapter which follows has been considered a later addition. See introductory note.