1. R. Alan Culpepper, The Gospel and Letters of John (Nashville: Abingdon, 1998), 110-11.
2. See F. F. Bruce, The Gospel of John (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1983), 8; Leon Morris, The Gospel According to John (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1971), 71-72.
3. Raymond E. Brown, The Gospel According to John (New York: Doubleday, 1970), 1.22.
4. Brown, The Gospel According to John, 1.18-23. On the incorporation of early Christian confessional material, particularly in hymnic or lyric form, into New Testament writings, see R. N. Longenecker, New Wine into Fresh Wineskins (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1999), 6-13.
5. Rudolf Bultmann, The Gospel of John (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1971), 18.
6. Herman Ridderbos, The Gospel According to John (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1987), 30-31.
7. Ridderbos, The Gospel According to John, ibid.
8. Bultmann, The Gospel of John, 21.
9. C. H. Dodd, The Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1953), 294-296.
10. See G. E. Ladd, "The Fourth Gospel," in A Theology of the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1974), 237-242; Morris, Studies in the Fourth Gospel, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1969), 119 ff.; George Beasley-Murray, John (Waco: Word, 1987), 9-10; Ridderbos, The Gospel According to John, 28-30, 35.
11. Morris, ibid, 116-117; cf. Ridderbos, The Gospel According to John, 122-24.
12. Beasley-Murray, John, 5.
13. Raymond E. Brown, "The Gospel According to John," in An Introduction to the New Testament (New York: Doubleday, 1997), 374-76.
14. Brown, The Gospel According to John, 1.27.
15. Citations are from the NRSV.
16. Cf. Morris, The Gospel According to John, 79.
17. Morris, ibid, 73.
18. Ridderbos, The Gospel According to John, 24-25.
19. See Rudolf Bultmann, "zaw,"Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, Abridged, ed. Gerhard Kittel and Gerhard Friedrich, tr. Geoffrey Bromiley (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1985), 295-96.
20. See Bultmann, The Gospel of John, 40-45; Morris [1971], 83; Gail R. O’Day, The Gospel of John (Nashville: Abingdon, 1995), 520.
21. So F. Wilbur Gingrich, A Shorter Lexicon of the Greek New Testament (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965), 110.
22. Brown, The Gospel According to John, 1.3; see also G. Delling, "lambanw," TDNT Abridged, 495-497.
23. Brown, The Gospel According to John, 1.lxviii, 22-23.
24. Brown, The Gospel According to John, 1.lxix, lxxviii; Beasley-Murray, John, lxxxix.
25. Dodd, The Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel, 85; cf. 1:17; see also R. Bultmann, "alhqeia," in TDNT Abridged, 39-40.
26. Ridderbos, The Gospel According to John, 45-46.
27. Dodd, The Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel, 284; Beasley-Murray, John, 12.
28. O’Day, The Gospel of John, 521.
29. Bultmann, The Gospel of John, 55; cf. Beasley-Murray, John, 12.
30. Cf. O’Day, The Gospel of John, 521.
31. Brown, The Gospel According to John, 1.512-13.
32. Cf. 1:11; Brown The Gospel According to John, 29.
33. Beasley-Murray, John, 13-14, and contra Käsemann.
34. Bultmann, The Gospel of John, 63.
35. O’Day, The Gospel of John, 522; cf. Romans 8:3, 1 Timothy 3:16.
36. Brown, The Gospel According to John, 14; O’Day, The Gospel of John, 522.
37. Brown, The Gospel According to John, 1.503.
38. Cf. 7:39; 12:16, 23, 28, 13:31; O’Day, The Gospel of John, 523; Brown, The Gospel According to John, 1.504.
39. Brown, The Gospel According to John, 1.14; R. N. Longenecker, "The One and Only Son," in The NIV. The Making of a Contemporary Translation (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986), 125-26.
40. Beasley-Murray, John, 14.
41. E.g. Brown, The Gospel According to John, 1.34.
42. O’Day, The Gospel of John, 523.
43. Brown, The Gospel According to John, 1.16.
44. O’Day, The Gospel of John, 523.
45. Cf. Beasley-Murray (John, 16), who suggests we should see the term as a contrast to the rabbis of Judaism, whom Josephus describes as "making known" the Torah.
46. O’Day, The Gospel of John, 525.
47. Beasley-Murray, John, 237-238.
48. Harry Blamires, The Christian Mind (London: SPCK, 1963), 44.
49. Brown, The Gospel According to John, 1.513.