# “The redemption, salvation, satisfaction, and righteousness of all the faithful” by J.C. Ryle

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“I have now completed my Notes on St. John’s Gospel. I have given my last explanation.
I have gathered my last collection of the opinions of Commentators.

I have offered for the last time my judgment upon doubtful and disputed points. 
I lay down my pen with humbled, thankful, and solemnized feelings.

The closing words of holy Bullinger’s _Commentary on the Gospels_, condensed and
abridged, will perhaps not be considered an inappropriate conclusion to my _Expository
Thoughts on St. John_:

> _‘Reader, I have now set before thee thy Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ, that very
> Son of God, who was begotten by the Father by an eternal and ineffable generation,
> consubstantial and coequal with the Father in all things;—but in these last times,
> according to prophetical oracles, was incarnate for us, suffered, died, rose again
> from the dead, and was made King and Lord of all things._
> _This is He who is appointed and given to us by God the Father, _
> _as the fulness of all grace and truth, _
> _as the Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world, _
> _as the ladder and door of heaven, _
> _as the serpent lifted up to render the poison of sin harmless, _
> _as the water which refreshes the thirsty, as the bread of life, _
> _as the light of the world, _
> _as the redeemer of God’s children, _
> _as the shepherd and door of the sheep, _
> _as the resurrection and the life,_
> _as the corn of wheat which springs up into much fruit, _
> _as the conqueror of the prince of this world, _
> _as the way, the truth, and the life, _
> _as the true vine, and finally, _
> _as the redemption, salvation, satisfaction, and righteousness of all the faithful
> in all the world, throughout all ages. _
> _Let us therefore pray God the Father, that, being taught by His Gospel, we may
> know Him that is true, and believe in Him in whom alone is salvation; and that,
> believing, we may feel God living in us in this world, and in the world to come
> may enjoy His eternal and most blessed fellowship.’_

Amen and Amen.”

–J.C. Ryle, [_Expository Thoughts on John, Volume 3_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/178397480X?tag=toletaupanre-20)(
Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1873), 3: 343. Ryle is commenting on **John 21:18-
25**.

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