Ch. xxi. 18---23. thou me? Peter was grieved, because he faid to him the third time, Loveft thou me? And he faid to him, Lord, thou knoweft all things; thou knoweft that I love thee. Jefus faith to him, Feed my fheep. 18 Verily, verily, I fay unto thee, when thou wait young, thou didft gird thyfelf, and walk whither thou wouldet: but when thou fhalt be old, thou shalt ftretch out thy hands, and another fhall gird thee, and carry 19 whither thou wouldeft not. This he faid, fignify

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ing by what death he should glorify God. And hav20 ing faid this, he faith to him, Follow me. Peter turning about, feeth the difciple whom Jefus loved following, who alfo leaned on his breaft at fupper, and faid, 21 Lord, who is he that betrayeth thee? Peter seeing

him, faith to Jefus, Lord, and what fhall this man do? 22 Jefus faith to him, If I will that he tarry till I come, 23 what is it to thee? Follow thou me. Then went this

faying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple fhould not die. Yet Jefus did not fay to him, That he fhould not die: but, if I will that he tarry till I come, what is it to thee?

V. 18. When thou art old-He lived about thirty-fix years after this: another fhall gird thee-They were tied to the crofs till the nails were driven in; and fhall carry thee-With the cross; where thou woulde not-According to nature; to the place where the crofs was fet up.

V. 19. By what death he should glorify God-It is not only by acting, but chiefly by fuffering, that the faints glorify God. Follow me-Shewing hereby likewife what death he should die.

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V. 20. Peter turning-As he was walking after Chrift. difciple whom Jefus loved following him-There is a peculiar fpirit and tenderness in this plain paffage. Chrift orders St. Peter to follow him in token of his readiness to be crucified in his caufe. St. John ftays not for the call; he rifes and follows him too; but says not one word of his own love or zeal. He chofe that the action only should speak this; and even when he records the circumftance, he tells not what that action meant, but with great fimplicity relates the fact only. If here and there a generous heart fees and emulates it, be it fo; but he is not folicitous that men fhould admire it. It was addreffed to his beloved Master, and it was enough that he understood it.

V. 22. If I will that he tarry-Without dying, till I come-To judgment. Certainly he did tarry, till Chrift came to destroy Jerufalem. And who can tell, when or how he died; What is that to thee?-Who art to follow me long before.

V. 23. The brethren-That is, the chriftians. Our Lord himfelf taught them that appellation, ch xx. 17. Yet Jefus did not fay to him, That he fhould not die-Not exprefsly. And St. John himself, at the time of writing his Gofpel, feems not to have known clearly, whether he should die or not,

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This is the difciple, who teftified of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his teftimony is 25 true. And there are alfo many other things which Jefus did, which, if they were to be written particularly, I fuppofe that even the world itself would not contain the books that were written.

V. 24. This is the difciple who teflifieth-Being fill alive after he had wrote. And we know that his teftimony is true-The church added these words to St John's Gospel, as Tertius did those to St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, ch. xvi. 22.

V. 25. If they were to be written particularly-Every fact and all the circumstances of it. I fuppofe-This expreffion, which foftens the byperbole, fhews that St, John wrote this verse.

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