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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdest thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest; but when thou shall be old, thon shall stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not. Peter, thou wilt have to be girded with an iron chain, and taken off to prison, and taken off to the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
This spake he,.... These are the words of the evangelist, explaining the meaning of Christ in like manner, as in John 12:33 signifying by what death he should glorify God; for by the above words Christ not only intimated that Peter should die, not a natural, but a violent death, or that he should die a martyr in his cause, but the very kind of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me. “That is to be your rule, whether you feed my sheep or lambs, or whether you stretch out your hands upon a cross, and die as a martyr, — ‘Follow me.’“ That is also the rule for all of us who love the Lord. O Lord, help us to obey it!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me. That is your life business. Follow me, even though you end, as I did, on a cross. Follow me. I am a shepherd; you must be a shepherd too; and as the sheep follow you, so do you follow me.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then Peter turning about,.... After he was risen, and was following Christ: seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following also; by whom is designed John the Evangelist, and writer of this Gospel; who hearing Christ bid Peter follow him, rose up likewise, and went after him, in token of his willingness to serve him, and suffer for him too: which...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee? Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do? Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me. Then went this...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee? Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, lord, and what shall this man do? Our Lord never answered such a foolish, inquisitive question as this, and therefore —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee? Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do? What about this man?
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Peter seeing him, saith to Jesus,.... Peter took a great deal of notice of John, and very likely understood, that he meant by his rising up and following Christ, to signify his readiness for service and suffering in the cause of Christ: and therefore says, Lord, and what shall this man do? The phrase in the original is very short and concise,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Jesus saith unto him,.... Christ vouchsafes an answer to Peter, but not a very clear one, nor such an one as he wished for, and not without a rebuke to him: if I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? meaning, that if it was his pleasure that he should live, not till his second coming to judge the quick and dead at the last day, but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me. That is how Christ would answer any similar questions that we might put to him. We need not concern ourselves so much about what is to happen to others until we have made our own calling and election sure. “What is that to thee? follow thou me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? Follow thou me. We ought not to be curious about the future of anybody. We must not be inquiring into what is not revealed; and what the Saviour said on this occasion was misunderstood; and if the words of Jesus, even when he spoke them, were misunderstood so as to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then went this saying abroad among the brethren,.... It not being rightly understood by some one or more of the disciples present: it was divulged with a wrong sense annexed to it among other persons; who, though not of the eleven, yet were followers of Christ, children of God, that belonged to the same family, and were, in a spiritual relation,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? This is only one of many instances in which Christ’s words have been twisted and made to mean something quite different from what he intended.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die; but if I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? The Word of God is to be trusted, and not tradition, for in the handing of a message from mouth to mouth it generally varies. It sometimes loses its very...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
This is the disciple which testifieth of these things,.... Recorded in this chapter concerning the appearance of Christ to his disciples at the sea of Tiberias, and what were done by him in their presence, what passed between them; particularly the conversation he had with Peter, both concerning himself, and the disciple John: and also, of all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true. And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true. And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen. Such a full life — so pregnant...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And there are also many other things which Jesus did,.... Which refer not to his doctrines and discourses, his sermons and prayers, and the conversation he had with his disciples, and others, on different accounts; but to the signs, and wonders, and miraculous operations, which were done by him, that are neither recorded in this, nor in any of the...