The Conclusion and Purpose of the Gospel

30. And many other signs truly The Greek cannot be exactly rendered without awkwardness: Therefore (as might be expected from what hasbeen written here) many and other signs. The context shews that -signs" must not be limited to proofs of the Resurrection: S. John is glancing back over his whole work -this book;" and the -signs" here, as elsewhere in this Gospel, are miracles generally. Comp. especially John 12:37. The expression -many and other" points the same way; many in number and different in kind from those related. The signs of the Resurrection from the nature of the case were all similar in kind.

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