there.

Johannes 20:30,31
Auch viele andere Zeichen tat Jesus vor seinen Jüngern, die nicht geschrieben sind in diesem Buch. …

Hiob 26:14
Siehe, also geht sein Tun, und nur ein geringes Wörtlein davon haben wir vernommen. Wer will aber den Donner seiner Macht verstehen?

Psalm 40:5
HERR, mein Gott, groß sind deine Wunder und deine Gedanken, die du an uns beweisest. Dir ist nichts gleich. Ich will sie verkündigen und davon sagen; aber sie sind nicht zu zählen.

Psalm 71:15
Mein Mund soll verkündigen deine Gerechtigkeit, täglich deine Wohltaten, die ich nicht alle zählen kann.

Prediger 12:12
Hüte dich, mein Sohn, vor andern mehr; denn viel Büchermachens ist kein Ende, und viel studieren macht den Leib müde.

Matthaeus 11:5
die Blinden sehen und die Lahmen gehen, die Aussätzigen werden rein und die Tauben hören, die Toten stehen auf und den Armen wird das Evangelium gepredigt;

Apostelgeschichte 10:38
wie Gott diesen Jesus von Nazareth gesalbt hat mit dem heiligen Geist und Kraft; der umhergezogen ist und hat wohlgetan und gesund gemacht alle, die vom Teufel überwältigt waren; denn Gott war mit ihm.

Apostelgeschichte 20:35
Ich habe es euch alles gezeigt, daß man also arbeiten müsse und die Schwachen aufnehmen und gedenken an das Wort des HERRN Jesus, daß er gesagt hat: "Geben ist seliger denn Nehmen!"

Hebraeer 11:32
Und was soll ich mehr sagen? Die Zeit würde mir zu kurz, wenn ich sollte erzählen von Gideon und Barak und Simson und Jephthah und David und Samuel und den Propheten,

that even.

Johannes 13:33
Liebe Kindlein, ich bin noch eine kleine Weile bei euch. Ihr werdet mich suchen; und wie ich zu den Juden sagte: "Wo ich hin gehe, da könnet ihr nicht hin kommen", sage ich jetzt auch euch.

;

5.Mose 1:28
Wo sollen wir hinauf? Unsre Brüder haben unser Herz verzagt gemacht und gesagt, das Volk sei größer und höher denn wir; die Städte seien groß und bis an den Himmel vermauert; dazu haben wir Enakiter daselbst gesehen.

; Da.

5.Mose 4:11
Und ihr tratet herzu und standet unten an dem Berge; der Berg brannte aber bis mitten an den Himmel, und war da Finsternis, Wolken und Dunkel.

; Ec.

5.Mose 14:15
der Strauß, die Nachteule, der Kuckuck, der Sperber mit seiner Art,

. 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
Da sandte Amazja, der Priester zu Beth-El, zu Jerobeam, dem König Israels, und ließ ihm sagen: Der Amos macht einen Aufruhr wider dich im Hause Israel; das Land kann seine Worte nicht ertragen.

Matthaeus 19:24
Und weiter sage ich euch: Es ist leichter, daß ein Kamel durch ein Nadelöhr gehe, denn daß ein Reicher ins Reich Gottes komme.

CONCLUDING REMARKS ON JOHN'S GOSPEL.

Johannes 10:2
Der aber zur Tür hineingeht, der ist ein Hirte der Schafe.

, with Mat.

27:55,56 and Mar.

15:40,) and brother of James the elder, whom 'Herod killed with the sword,' (Ac.

Johannes 12:2
Daselbst machten sie ihm ein Abendmahl, und Martha diente; Lazarus aber war deren einer, die mit ihm zu Tische saßen.

.) Theophylact says that Salome was the daughter of Joseph, the husband of Mary, by a former wife; and that consequently she was our Lord's sister, and John was his nephew. He followed the occupation of his father till his call to the apostleship, (Mat.

Johannes 4:21,22
Jesus spricht zu ihr: Weib, glaube mir, es kommt die Zeit, daß ihr weder auf diesem Berge noch zu Jerusalem werdet den Vater anbeten.…

, Mar.

Johannes 1:19
Und dies ist das Zeugnis des Johannes, da die Juden sandten von Jerusalem Priester und Leviten, daß sie ihn fragten: Wer bist du?

,

Johannes 1:20
Und er bekannte und leugnete nicht; und er bekannte: Ich bin nicht Christus.

, Lu.

Johannes 5:1-10
Darnach war ein Fest der Juden, und Jesus zog hinauf gen Jerusalem.…

,) which is supposed to have been when he was about twenty five years of age; after which he was a constant eye-witness of our Lord's labours, journeyings, discourses, miracles, passion, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension. After the ascension of our Lord he returned with the other apostles to Jerusalem, and with the rest partook of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, by which he was eminently qualified for the office of an Evangelist and Apostle. After the death of Mary, the mother of Christ, which is supposed to have taken place about fifteen years after the crucifixion, and probably after the council held in Jerusalem about

A.D.49 or

50, (Ac.

Johannes 5:15
Der Mensch ging hin und verkündete es den Juden, es sei Jesus, der ihn gesund gemacht habe.

.,) at which he was present, he is said by ecclesiastical writers to have proceeded to Asia Minor, where he formed and presided over seven churches in as many cities, but chiefly resided at Ephesus. Thence he was banished by the emperor Domitian, in the fifteenth year of his reign,

A.D. 95, to the isle of Patmos in the Aegean sea, where he wrote the Apocalypse, (Re. i.9.) On the accession of Nerva the following year, he was recalled from exile and returned to Ephesus, where he wrote his Gospel and Epistles, and died in the hundredth year of his age, about

A.D. 100, and in the third year of the emperor Trajan. It is generally believed that John was the youngest of the twelve apostles, and that he survived all the rest. Jerome, in his comment on Gal. VI., says that he continued preaching when so enfeebled with age as to be obliged to be carried into the assembly; and that, not being able to deliver any long discourse, his custom was to say in every meeting, My dear children, love one another. The general current of ancient writers declares that the apostle wrote his Gospel at an advanced period of life, with which the internal evidence perfectly agrees; and we may safely refer it, with Chrysostom, Epiphanius, Mill, Le Clerc, and others, to the year

97. The design of John in writing his Gospel is said by some to have been to supply those important events which the other Evangelists had omitted, and to refute the notions of the Cerinthians and Nicolaitans, or according to others, to refute the heresy of the Gnostics and Sabians. But, though many parts of his Gospel may be successfully quoted against the strange doctrines held by those sects, yet the apostle had evidently a more general end in view than the confutation of their heresies. His own words sufficiently inform us of his motive and design in writing this Gospel: 'These things are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing, ye might have life through his name.' (ch.

Johannes 20:31
Diese aber sind geschrieben, daß ihr glaubet, Jesus sei Christus, der Sohn Gottes, und daß ihr durch den Glauben das Leben habet in seinem Namen.

.) Learned men are not wholly agreed concerning the language in which this Gospel was originally written. Salmasius, Grotius, and other writers, have imagined that John wrote it in his own native tongue, the Aramean or Syriac, and that it was afterwards translated into Greek. This opinion is not supported by any strong arguments, and is contradicted by the unanimous voice of antiquity, which affirms that he wrote it in Greek, which is the general and most probable opinion. The style of this Gospel indicates a great want of those advantages which result from a learned education; but this defect is amply compensated by the unexampled simplicity with which he expresses the sublimest truths. One thing very remarkable is an attempt to impress important truths more strongly on the minds of his readers, by employing in the expression of them both an affirmative proposition and a negative. It is manifestly not without design that he commonly passes over those passages of our Lord's history and teaching which had been treated at large by other Evangelists, or if he touches them at all, he touches them but slightly, whilst he records many miracles which had been overlooked by the rest, and expatiates on the sublime doctrines of the pre-existence, the divinity, and the incarnation of the Word, the great ends of His mission, and the blessings of His purchase.