Chapter 21:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Luke Acts
John 21
Verse 2. There were together - At home, in one house.
Verse
4. They knew not that it was Jesus - Probably their eyes were
holden.
Verse
6. They were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes - This
was not only a demonstration of the power of our Lord, but a kind
supply for them and their families, and such as might be of service
to them, when they waited afterward in Jerusalem. It was likewise
an emblem of the great success which should attend them as
fishers of men.
Verse
7. Peter girt on his upper coat (for he was stript of it before) -
Reverencing the presence of his Lord: and threw himself into the
sea - To swim to him immediately. The love of Christ draws men
through fire and water.
Verse
12. Come ye and dine - Our Lord needed not food. And none
presumed - To ask a needless question.
Verse
14. The third time - That he appeared to so many of the apostles
together.
Verse
15. Simon, son of Jonah - The appellation Christ had given him,
when be made that glorious confession, Matt. xvi, 16, the
remembrance of which might make him more deeply sensible of
his late denial of him whom he had so confessed. Lovest thou me?
- Thrice our Lord asks him, who had denied him thrice: more than
these - Thy fellow disciples do? - Peter thought so once, Matt.
xxvi, 33, but he now answers only- I love thee, without adding
more than these. Thou knowest - He had now learnt by sad
experience that Jesus knew his heart. My lambs - The weakest and
tenderest of the flock.
Verse
17. Because he said the third time - As if he did not believe him.
Verse
18. When thou art old - He lived about thirty-six years after this:
another shall gird thee - They were tied to the cross till the nails
were driven in; and shall carry thee - With the cross: whither thou
wouldest not - According to nature; to the place where the cross
was set up.
Verse
19. By what death he should glorify God - It is not only by acting,
but chiefly by suffering, that the saints glorify God. Follow me -
Showing hereby likewise what death he should die.
Verse
20. Peter turning - As he was walking after Christ. Seeth the
disciple whom Jesus loved following him - There is a peculiar
spirit and tenderness in this plain passage. Christ orders St. Peter
to follow him in token of his readiness to be crucified in his cause.
St. John stays not for the call; he rises and follows him too; but
says not one word of his own love or zeal. He chose that the
action only should speak this; and even when he records the
circumstance, he tells us not what that action meant, but with
great simplicity relates the fact only. If here and there a generous
heart sees and emulates it, be it so; but he is not solicitous that
men should admire it. It was addressed to his beloved Master, and
it was enough that he understood it.
Verse
22. If I will that he tarry - Without dying, till I come - To
judgment. Certainly he did tarry, till Christ came to destroy
Jerusalem. And who can tell, when or how he died? What is that
to thee? - Who art to follow me long before.
Verse
23. The brethren - That is, the Christians. Our Lord himself taught
them that appellation, chap. xx, 17. Yet Jesus did not say to him,
that he should not die - Not expressly. And St. John himself, at the
time of writing his Gospel, seems not to have known clearly,
whether he should die or not.
Verse
24. This is the disciple who testifieth - Being still alive after he
had wrote. And we know that his testimony is true - The Church
added these words to St. John's, Gospel, as Tertius did those to St.
Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Rom. xvi, 22.
Verse
25. 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.
Chapter 21:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Johnson
| Lightfoot
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| McGarvey Pendleton
| McGee
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Luke Acts
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