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.
Ver. 31. These things are written] He speaks this of the writ of the other three evangelists also. Matthew wrote his Gospel eight years after Christ, Mark 10:1,52, Luke 15:1,32, and John 42 misprint in original text, in the days of Trajan. He died in the 101st year of his own age.