Reflection on John 21.19b–25 by Revd Harold Stringer, Feast Day of St John, Sunday 27 December 2020

Reflection given on John 21.19b–25 by Revd Harold Stringer during Parish Mass on Sunday 27th December 2020 – Feast Day of St John, Apostle & Evangelist John 21.19b–25 After this Jesus said to Peter, ‘Follow me.’ Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them; he was the one who had reclined next to Jesus at the supper and had said, ‘Lord, who is it that is going to betray you?’ When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, ‘Lord, what about him?’ Jesus said to him, ‘If it is my will that he remains until I come, what is that to you? Follow me!’ So the rumour spread in the community that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but, ‘If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you?’ This is the disciple who is testifying to these things and has written them, and we know that his testimony is true. But there are also many other things that Jesus did; if every one of them were written down, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.