<p>21:25 <em>And there are many other things which Jesus did, which if each one of them should be written down, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that should be written</em>- The books written parallel the personal witness made of :24. The Lord had done so much in so many lives, that if each person were to write down their account, then &quot;I suppose&quot; the world could not contain the records. &quot;I suppose&quot; reads strangely as it stands; John is hardly one for using throw away terms such as &quot;I guess...&quot;. The Greek literally means 'to make as oneself'. The idea may be that each one in whom the Lord Jesus had done things could write a witness as John had done in his Gospel record; and the world could not contain so many books of witness. But &quot;the world&quot; in John is nearly always the Jewish world; and so often, he alludes back to the prologue. His conclusion of the Gospel is surely a place where he would allude to the prologue. There we read that the Jewish world did not &quot;receive&quot; the testimony or <em>logos</em> of the Lord; and &quot;contain&quot; here can also mean &quot;receive&quot; [s.w. &quot;All men cannot receive this saying&quot;, Mt. 19:11]. So the idea may be that the Jewish world would in no way receive all the testimonies made. This however would be a rather negative way to end. We have detected allusions to the great commission so often in John. Perhaps the idea is that the world, both the Jewish world and the <em>kosmos</em>, could and should be flooded with books of witness from those in whose lives the Lord had done things. For He &quot;did&quot; [s.w. &quot;made&quot;] disciples of men (4:1 s.w.), doing or making people whole (5:15 s.w.). Their 'books' would be like John's book of witness in his Gospel record; but all slightly different. This, then, would be the taking of the Lord Jesus into all the world, by personal witness of what He had done in human lives.&nbsp;</p>