This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
John 21:24 in context
John 21:21–25
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Peter, seeing him, said to Jesus, “Lord, what about this man?”
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Jesus said to him, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.”
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This saying therefore went out among the brothers that this disciple wouldn’t die. Yet Jesus didn’t say to him that he wouldn’t die, but, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?”
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This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true.
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There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have room for the books that would be written.
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