1. 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.
2. Donald Guthrie, John from the New Bible Commentary (21st Century Edition) (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity, 1994), p. 1054.
3. Guthrie, John, p. 1053.
4. Brown, Gospel According to John, p. 564; Michael J. Taylor, John: The Different Gospel (New York: Alba House, 1983), p. 157.
5. Brown, Gospel According to John, p. 551.
6. F. F. Bruce, The Gospel of John (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1983), p. 280.
7. 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.
8. Newbigin, Light, p. 167.
9. Newbigin, Light, p. 168.
10. Newbigin, Light, p. 168.
11. Brown, Gospel According to John, p. 565.
12. Brown, Gospel According to John, p. 566.
13. Brown, Gospel According to John, p. 565.
14. Taylor, Different Gospel, p. 158.
15. 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).
16. S (Codex Sinaiticus), old Latin texts, vg (Vulgate), Gk text from Origen do not include this phrase.
17. Michaels, John: Good News Commentary, p. 232.
18. Bruce, Gospel of John, p. 282.
19. Hunter, Gospel According to John, p. 135.
20. Michaels, John: Good News Commentary, p. 226, 232.
21. Brown, The Gospel According to John, p. 568.
22. Bruce, Gospel of John, p. 282.
23. Culpepper, Gospel and Letters of John, p. 205.
24. R. H. Lightfoot, St. John’s Gospel (London: Oxford University Press, 1960), p. 273.
25. Taylor, Different Gospel, p. 158.
26. Bruce, Gospel of John, p. 283.
27. Brown, Gospel According to John, p. 569.
28. Brown, Gospel According to John, p. 552.
29. Culpepper, Gospel and Letters of John, p. 206.
30. Brown, Gospel According to John, p. 558.
31. Lightfoot, St. John’s Gospel, p. 273.
32. Michaels, John: Good News Commentary, p. 226.
33. Culpepper, Gospel and Letters of John, p. 206.
34. Bruce, Gospel of John, p. 284.
35. Newbigin, The Light Has Come, p. 169.
36. Michaels, John: Good News Commentary, p. 227.
37. Guthrie, John, p. 1054.
38. Bruce, Gospel of John, p. 286.