John 21:20-25
seeth John 21:7, John 21:24, John 20:2 which John 13:23-26, John 20:2 Lord Matt 24:3-4; Luke 13:23-24; Acts 1:6-7 If Matt 16:27-28, Matt 24:3, Matt 24:27, Matt 24:44, Matt 25:31; Mark 9:1; 1Cor 4:5, 1Cor 11:26; Rev 1:7, Rev 2:25; Rev 3:11, Rev 22:7, Rev 22:20 follow John 21:19 what Deut 29:29; Job 28:28, Job 33:13; Dan 4:35 we know John 19:35; 1John 1:1-2, 1John 5:6; 3John 1:12 there John 20:30-31; Job 26:14; Ps 40:5, Ps 71:15; Eccl 12:12; Matt 11:5; Acts 10:38; Acts 20:35; Heb 11:32 that even This is a very strong eastern expression to represent the number of miracles which Jesus wrought. But however strong and strange it may appear to us of the western world, we find sacred and other authors using hyperboles of the like kind and signification. See Num 13:33; Deut 1:28; Dan 4:11; Eccl 1:15. Basnage gives a very similar hyperbole taken from the Jewish writers, in which Jochanan is said to have "composed such a great number of precepts and lessons, that if the heavens were paper, and all the trees of the forest so many pens, and all the children of men so many scribes, they would not suffice to write all his lessons." Amos 7:10; Matt 19:24
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