Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die; but,
If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to you?
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
Yet Jesus said not, &c. This is the correction. John corrects the mistaken opinion of the disciples concerning himself, that he should not die. Whence it may be gathered that the meaning of Christ"s words was different, and that John really died, as I have shown upon verse22.