John 20:30,31 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

And many other signs truly did Jesus That is, Jesus wrought many other miracles; which are not written in this book In this gospel of John, nor indeed in those of the other evangelists; but these are written that ye might believe That ye, into whose hands soever this narrative shall fall, may believe, that Jesus of Nazareth is the Christ The true Messiah; the Son of God In a sense in which no creature, man or angel, can be his son, (see Hebrews 1:4-12,) being not only miraculously begotten, as to his human nature, on which account he is also termed the Son of God, (Luke 1:35,) but that eternal Son, who had glory with his Father, and was beloved by him before the world was, John 17:5; John 17:24; and who was without beginning of days, as well as without end of life, Hebrews 7:3: and that believing Applying to, and confiding in, him for salvation, as the only person in and through whom it can be attained, (Acts 4:12,) and receiving him in all his characters and offices, John 1:12: ye might have life through his name Spiritual life, the life of grace here, and eternal life, the life of glory, hereafter.

John 20:30-31

30 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:

31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.