Good morning. Now Jesus tells Peter: truly, truly, I say to you, when you were younger, you used to gird yourself and walk wherever you wished; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will gird you, and bring you where you do not wish to go. Of course that happens to elderly people today; that is not what He was talking about. Many believe that Jesus was saying that Peter would be imprisoned and led to crucifixion. Tradition says that Peter was crucified upside down; that he said he was not worthy to be crucified right side up like his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Now He said this signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. And when He had spoken thus, He said to him; follow Me! Of course Peter said, thanks for the info Jesus – not! He did exactly like we would do if someone told us we would have a horrible future. Peter, turning around, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them. So Peter seeing him, said to Jesus, Lord, what about this man? He tries to deflect and turn the attention to someone else – is he going to have a bad future too? If I want him to remain until I come, what is that do you? You follow Me! Therefore this saying went out among the brethren that that disciple would not die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but only, if I want him to remain until I come, what is that do you? Take care of your own little red wagon. This is the disciple (most believe John) who is testifying to these things and wrote these things, and we know that his testimony is true. And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain books that would be written. This is similar to what John wrote at the end of chapter 20, after Jesus appeared the second time in the upper room. He did not include everything that Jesus did; only enough so that people would believe that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of God! Father thank You that showed us (through the Gospel of John) the love of Jesus – that He gave up everything to die on the cross to save us!

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