My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
He also uttered three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five.
For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
But there are also many other things which Jesus did; were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.
You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness to me;