John 21:18-25 ▼

18 |Truly, I tell you emphatically, when you were young, you would fasten your belt and go wherever you liked. But when you get old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will fasten your belt and take you where you don't want to go.|

19 Now he said this to show by what kind of death he would glorify God. After saying this, Jesus told him, |Keep following me.|

20 Peter turned around and noticed the disciple whom Jesus kept loving following them. He was the one who had put his head on Jesus' chest at the supper and had asked, |Lord, who is the one who is going to betray you?|

21 When Peter saw him, he said, |Lord, what about him?|

22 Jesus told him, |If it's my will for him to remain until I come back, how does that concern you? You must keep following me!|

23 So the rumor spread among the brothers that this disciple wasn't going to die. Yet Jesus didn't say to Peter that he wasn't going to die, but, |If it's my will for him to remain until I come back, how does that concern you?|

24 This is the disciple who is testifying to these things and has written them down. We know that his testimony is true.

25 Of course, Jesus also did many other things, and I suppose that if every one of them were written down, the world couldn't contain the books that would be written.