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Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
John 21:22
If I will that he tarry till I come. This is spoken of John, and
the words have caused much discussion. They surely convey the idea that
John would remain on the earth, after the other apostles depart, until
the Lord came once more. He did linger long after all the other
apostles were gone. It is the testimony of church history that he did
not die until about the close of the first century, many years after
the other apostles were at rest. He "tarried"; did the Lord come to
him? At least sixty years after the Lord spoke these words John was an
exile on the isle of Patmos. There on the Lord's day he writes: "I
heard a great voice" (Revelation 1:10), and "I saw one like the Son of man"
(Revelation 1:13), blazing in such glory that, filled with awe, he "fell
at his feet as dead" (Revelation 1:17). Then follow these words of the
Savior, the seven letters, and the visions of Revelation. Here was a
visible coming and John tarried until that coming. He alone of the
Twelve saw the Lord, after his ascension, once more on the earth.
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