John Bengel Commentary - John 21:19 - 21:19

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John Bengel Commentary - John 21:19 - 21:19


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Joh 21:19. Σημαίνων, signifying) Such predictions are sometimes vouchsafed to those who excel in love and faithfulness.-ποίῳ, by what kind of death) John wrote his gospel before the death of Peter: and the event, in a few years after, corresponded to the prediction of the Lord recorded by John. Comp. ch. Joh 12:33 [referring to His own death].-δοξάσει, he was about to glorify) It is chiefly by suffering, not merely by doing, that the saints glorify God.-λέγει, He saith) forthwith.-ἀκολούθει μοι, follow Me) apart, by thyself: so as to hear what I have to do with thee alone; as also, that thou mayest undergo the suffering of the cross, Joh 21:18; Joh 21:22, ch. Joh 13:36. [This saying of the Lord, throughout the whole career of Peter’s life, secured his alacrity in following Christ.-V. g.] This following implied not so much the similarity of Peter’s death by the cross to that of Christ, which had already been intimated, as the fact of the death of Peter being separated from that of the Lord by a not exceedingly long interval, when compared with the lengthened stay of John. For there follows, What is that to thee? He had first of all said to the disciples, Follow Me (ch. Joh 1:43). The continuation of the beginning crowns the completion of Christianity.[409] This especially was the mind of Ignatius, to follow so as to attain to Christ.

[409] i.e. To follow Christ on to the last, as it is the first step, so it is the crowning of a disciple’s Christianity.-E. and T.