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This saying therefore went out among the brothers that this disciple wouldn’t die. Yet Jesus didn’t say to him that he wouldn’t die, but, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?”
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Verse 23. This saying, therefore: [4] that is, a report went about among the disciples, the John was not to die. But Saint John himself, as Saint Augustine and Saint John Chrysostom observe, took care to tell us, that Christ said not so. Nor do we find any sufficient grounds to think that Saint John is not dead. Witham.
The word for “brothers” here may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”
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