John 21:18-24

¹⁸Most assuredly I say to you, when you were younger you used to get dressed and walk where you wished; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands and another will dress you and carry you where you do not wish.”

¹⁹(He said this to indicate the kind of death by which he would glorify God.) And upon saying that He says to him, “Follow me!”

²⁰But turning around Peter sees the disciple whom Jesus loved following (that is the one who reclined on His chest at the supper and said, “Lord, who is the one who is betraying you?”).

²¹Seeing him, Peter says to Jesus, “Lord, what about him?”

²²Jesus says to him: “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.”

²³So this saying spread among the brothers, that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not say to him Peter that he John would not die, but, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?”

²⁴This is the disciple who is testifying to these things, and who wrote them; and we know that his testimony is true.