Charles Spurgeon Commentary John 21:24-25

"This is the disciple that beareth witness of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his witness is true. And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that should be written." — John 21:24-25 (ASV)

This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true. And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.

Such a full life—so pregnant with meaning, so active, and all its activity so intensely real and spiritual—that to write a life of Christ is an impossibility. And though there have been many very admirable "lives of Christ" in our time, I recommend you keep to the one that is the best of them all: that one is written by four.

The Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are by far the best life of Christ. All others must be merely helps to the understanding of these four.