John 21:20-25

Jesus and the Beloved Apostle

20 Peter turned and saw ¹the disciple whom Jesus loved following them, ²the one who had been reclining at table close to him and had said, "Lord, who is it that is going to betray you?"

21 When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, "Lord, what about this man?"

22 Jesus said to him, "If it is my will that he remain ³until ⁴I come, what is that to you? ⁵You follow me!"

23 So the saying spread abroad among ⁶the brothers^[a] that this disciple was not to die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he was not to die, but, "If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you?"

24 This is the disciple ⁷who is bearing witness about these things, and who has written these things, and ⁸we know ⁹that his testimony is true.

25 Now ¹⁰there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that ¹¹the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.

Cross References

• 1. ver. 7
• 2. John 13:25
• 3. Matthew 10:23; Matthew 16:28; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 1 Corinthians 11:26; James 5:7; Revelation 2:25
• 4. [John 14:3, 18, 28; Hebrews 10:37; Revelation 2:5, 16; Revelation 3:3, 11; Revelation 16:15; Revelation 22:7, 12, 20]; See Matthew 16:27
• 5. ver. 19
• 6. Acts 1:15; Acts 9:30; Acts 11:1; Acts 12:17; Acts 15:1; Acts 16:2, 40; Acts 21:7, 17; 1 John 3:14, 16
• 7. See John 15:27
• 8. 1 John 3:2, 14; 1 John 5:15, 18-20; [John 19:35]
• 9. 3 John 12
• 10. John 20:30
• 11. [Amos 7:10]

Footnotes

• [a]. Or brothers and sisters