The Gospel According to John ends with the following, seemingly over-the-top verse:
Was John simply engaging in hyperbole when he writes that the world could not contain the books that could or should have written about all Jesus did? Certainly, John could not have reasonably believed that the quan***y of books that could be written about the life of Jesus would be so great that that there wouldn't be room on the earth for them to be stored, after all, Jesus only lived for 33 years. If John was engaged in hyperbole, then it means that verse 25 is not true. Well, the Bible is true, and John was not engaged in hyperbole.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 would not contain the books that should be written.
John 21:25
John was not talking about the physical capacity of the world to contain the books that should be written of Christ. He was talking of the spiritual capacity of people to accept all that should be written of Christ. What is written in the Bible was written by inspiration according to the spiritual capacity that the people to accept at the time. As the spiritual capacity of the world increases, so then does the Word of God that is given to us.
The spiritual capacity of the world to accept God's Word has increased in the past 200+ years, and thus the Lord had given us more of His Word. The exciting part is that there is more -- much, much more -- that the Lord is ready to give us when we are ready to receive. Of course, we also see that those who are unwilling to receive what the Lord is giving us are losing what they once had.9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
13 But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Isaiah 28