You see stuff about the Library of Alexandria in movies and television programs and all manner of plotlines and speculation are strung around it. It is a pretty fascinating concept. Founded by an enigmatic ancient king, ambitiously expanded by a man whose goal it was to secure a copy of every book in existence at that time, only to be ravaged by fires and eventually and mysteriously destroyed by one after that goal had reportedly been met.

The number of books in the world has grown along with the number of people in the world since the time of the first Ptolemy. There are surely larger libraries today which contain volumes on the history of the Alexandrian library itself, its collections of philosphy, mathematics and histories, and many other things, along with not only hard copies of millions of books on nearly every subject imaginable.

With the advent of computers and interactive programs, the ability to store and search information seems almost endless. At our fingertips, we can search vast databases from all over the world in many languages and never read it all. We can even take classes and interact instantly with people who live across the globe, with little restriction.

As impressive as all of that seems, and no matter how lofty the goal is for the assimilation of knowledge, the most educated of persons will never approach the level of wisdom or knowledge that God possesses.

"Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!" Romans 11:33

He only lived as a man on the earth for about thirty-three years, yet it wouldn't matter how big the library was, it would always need to be expanded to contain everything that could be substantively written about Jesus. "And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen." John 21:25

John may have only been emphasizing that he had been very selective in his recollections, rather than writing exhaustively in his gospel account, but but his words were true, and isn't it amazing that God can use the smallest turn of phrase from His word to convict the heart and bring a person to faith in the Son of God?