you used to put on your girdle and walk whichever way you chose,
when you have grown old you will stretch out your arms
and some one else will put a girdle round you and carry you
where you have no wish to go."
021:019 This He said to indicate the kind of death by which that disciple
would bring glory to God; and after speaking thus He said
to him, "Follow me."
021:020 Peter turned round and noticed the disciple whom Jesus
loved following--the one who at the supper had leaned
back on His breast and had asked, "Master, who is it that
is betraying you?"
021:021 On seeing him, Peter asked Jesus, "And, Master, what about him?"
021:022 "If I desire him to remain till I come," replied Jesus,
"what concern is that of yours? You, yourself, must follow me."
021:023 Hence the report spread among the brethren that that disciple
would never die. Yet Jesus did not say, "He is not to die,"
but, "If I desire him to remain till I come, what concern
is that of yours?"
021:024 That is the disciple who gives his testimony as to these matters,
and has written this history; and we know that his
testimony is true.
021:025 But there are also many other things which Jesus did--so vast
a number indeed that if they were all described in detail,
I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books
that would have to be written.