John 21:25 – Hyperbole or Fact?

At one time or another every Bible reader must have been struck by that last verse of. John's majestic gospel: "And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written." How must we take these words from the pen of the disciple whom Jesus loved, as hyperbole or simple fact? Have we to do here with poetic exaggeration, or must we take them literally and at face...