22 “If I want him to remain until I come,”(A) Jesus answered, “what is that to you? As for you, follow me.”

23 So this rumor[a] spread to the brothers and sisters(B) that this disciple would not die.(C) Yet Jesus did not tell him that he would not die, but, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?”

Epilogue

24 This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true.

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Footnotes

  1. 21:23 Lit this word

22 Jesus answered, “If I want him to remain alive until I return,(A) what is that to you? You must follow me.”(B) 23 Because of this, the rumor spread among the believers(C) that this disciple would not die. But Jesus did not say that he would not die; he only said, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you?”

24 This is the disciple who testifies to these things(D) and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true.(E)

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