Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)
John 21 - Introduction
CHAPTER 21.
Supplementary chapter in which Jesus again manifests Himself after the resurrection.
[There is no reason why this chapter should be ascribed to a different hand. The style is the same as that of the gospel, and although the gospel closed at the end of chap. 20, this supplementary chapter must have become an integral part of the gospel at a very early period. No trace exists of a gospel without it. It is by no means so certain that John 21:25 is Johannine. It seems an inflated version of John 20:30. The twenty-fourth verse is also rejected by several critics on the ground of οἴδαμεν. This may be valid as an objection; but it is in the manner of the Apostle to testify to his own truthfulness, John 19:35; and the use of the plural instead of the singular is not decisive.]