Papyrus
109
Date:
Middle Second to Early Third Century A.D.
Discovered:
Oxyrhynchus, Egypt
Location:
Oxford, England: Sackler Library
Contents:
John 21:18-20, 23-25
John
21
18 Most
certainly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself and walked
where you wanted to. But when you are old, you
will stretch out your hands, and
another will dress you and carry you
where you don’t want to go.”
19 Now
he said this, signifying by what kind
of death he would glorify God. When
he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”
20 Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This was
the disciple whom Jesus loved, the one who had also leaned on Jesus’ breast at
the supper and asked, “Lord, who is going to betray you?”
[..]
23 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?” 24 This
is the disciple
who testifies about these things,
and wrote these things.
We know that his witness is true.
25 There are also many
other things which Jesus did, which
if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t
have room for the books that would be written.