- Raymond E. Brown, The Gospel
According to John (xiii-xxi) (AB 29a; Garden City: Doubleday, 1970), p. 564; Lesslie
Newbigin, The Light Has Come: An Exposition of the Fourth Gospel (Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 1982), p. 167.
- Donald Guthrie, John from the New Bible
Commentary (21st Century Edition) (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity, 1994), p.
1054.
- Guthrie, John, p. 1053.
- Brown, Gospel According to John, p.
564; Michael J. Taylor, John: The Different Gospel (New York: Alba House, 1983), p.
157.
- Brown, Gospel According to John, p.
551.
- F. F. Bruce, The Gospel of
John (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1983), p. 280.
- Brown, Gospel According to John, p.
551; R. Alan Culpepper, The Gospel and Letters of John (Nashville: Abingdon, 1998),
p. 204; Taylor, Different Gospel, p. 157; Newbigin, The Light Has Come, p.
167; A. M. Hunter, The Gospel According to John (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1965), p. 134.
- Newbigin, Light, p. 167.
- Newbigin, Light, p. 168.
- Newbigin, Light, p. 168.
- Brown, Gospel According to John, p.
565.
- Brown, Gospel According to John, p.
566.
- Brown, Gospel According to John, p.
565.
- Taylor, Different Gospel, p. 158.
- As Ramsey Michaels points out:
"Jesus metaphorical reply leaves behind more questions than it answers" (John:
A Good News Commentary [San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1983]. p. 225); Taylor adds:
"the commentators give no clear answer to the meaning of Jesus response to
Peter" (Different Gospel, p. 158).
- S (Codex Sinaiticus), old Latin texts, vg
(Vulgate), Gk text from Origen do not include this phrase.
- Michaels, John: Good News Commentary,
p. 232.
- Bruce, Gospel of John, p. 282.
- Hunter, Gospel According to John,
p. 135.
- Michaels, John: Good News Commentary,
p. 226, 232.
- Brown, The Gospel According to John,
p. 568.
- Bruce, Gospel of John, p. 282.
- Culpepper, Gospel and Letters of John,
p. 205.
- R. H. Lightfoot, St. Johns Gospel
(London: Oxford University Press, 1960), p. 273.
- Taylor, Different Gospel, p. 158.
- Bruce, Gospel of John, p. 283.
- Brown, Gospel According to John, p.
569.
- Brown, Gospel According to John, p.
552.
- Culpepper, Gospel and Letters of John,
p. 206.
- Brown, Gospel According to John, p.
558.
- Lightfoot, St. Johns Gospel,
p. 273.
- Michaels, John: Good News Commentary,
p. 226.
- Culpepper, Gospel and Letters of John,
p. 206.
- Bruce, Gospel of John, p. 284.
- Newbigin, The Light Has Come, p.
169.
- Michaels, John: Good News Commentary,
p. 227.
- Guthrie, John, p. 1054.
- Bruce, Gospel of John, p. 286.