It was John who said (in chapter 21 of his gospel) that if all Jesus’ exploits had been recorded, the world would not have enough space for all the books that would have been written. This is an important observation by the “disciple whom Jesus loved” because John’s gospel is not a collection of random stories. Each account has been carefully selected from a myriad of “candidates” because it expresses an especially profound and appropriate lesson – all of them reinforcing John’s central theme, “But these are written that you may believe that Jesus (John 20:31).