1. Barrett, John, 461.
2. Cf. Bultmann, John, 612.
3. Tricia Gates Brown, Spirit in the Writings of John: Johannine Pneumatology in Social-Scientific Perspective, JSNTSup 253 (London: T&T Clark, 2003), 170.
4. See Lincoln, Truth on Trial, 113–14.
5. Ibid., 114.
6. See BDAG 766, which does not even list “advocate” as a primary meaning of the term.
7. Kenneth Grayston, “The Meaning of PARAKLēTOS,” JSNT 13 (1981): 67–82 (75).
8. Cf. Brown, John, 2:1137.
9. For a survey of potential religious backgrounds, see Burge, The Anointed Community, 10–31; Keener, John, 2:954–62.
10. This is similar to our discussion on “Word” (see comments on 1:1).
11. Jesus claims in 16:7 to “send” the Spirit, and according to Titus 3:6 the Spirit is poured out “through Jesus Christ.” The Spirit is also interchangeably called “the Spirit of God” (Rom 8:11, 14; 1 Cor 2:11) and “the Spirit of Jesus” (2 Cor 3:17; Gal 4:6; Phil 1:19).
12. See James M. Hamilton Jr., “Old Covenant Believers and the Indwelling Spirit: A Survey of the Spectrum of Opinion,” TrinJ 24 (2003): 37–54. Cf. Augustine, John, 74.2.334.
13. Morris, John, 589.
14. Lincoln, Truth on Trial, 113.
15. V. George Shillington, “The Spirit-Paraclete as Jesus’s Alter Ego in the Fourth Gospel (John 14–16),” Vision 13 (2012): 31–39 (35).
16. Cf. Ridderbos, John, 499.
17. Helpful here is Calvin, John 11–21, 82.
18. Andreas J. Köstenberger and Scott R. Swain, Father, Son and Spirit: The Trinity and John’s Gospel, NSBT 24 (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2008), 147.
19. Cf. Dorothy A. Lee, Hallowed in Truth and Love: Spirituality in the Johannine Literature (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2012), 95–96.
20. Bultmann calls it “a new history” (John, 616).
21. Cf. Barrett, John, 463; Brown, John, 2:639. Since objective genitives usually require a verbal head noun, it could also be an attributive genitive. See Wallace, Greek Grammar, 86–88; 116–19.
22. Daniel Rathnakara Sadananda, The Johannine Exegesis of God: An Exploration into the Johannine Understanding of God, BZNW 121 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2004), 258–59.
23. Bultmann, John, 616. Bultmann refers to these senses as the “super-senses.”
24. See Wallace, Greek Grammar, 373–75.
25. Cf. Luther, John, 24:120.
26. Cf. Augustine, John, 75.1.335.
27. Cf. Morris, John, 579.
28. Hoskyns, Fourth Gospel, 459 (emphasis added).
29. BDAG 325.
30. Cf. Ridderbos, John, 506.
31. See Barrett, John, 464.
32. This disciple is only named here in the Gospel. Almost nothing is known about him.
33. See BDAG 628.
34. Cf. Carson, John, 504.
35. Cf. Augustine, John, 76.4.338.
36. Bultmann, John, 625.
37. Angus Paddison, “Exegetical Notes on John 14:23–29,” ExpTim 118 (2007): 342–43.
38. Schnackenburg, John, 3:83.
39. Hoskyns, Fourth Gospel, 461.
40. Cf. Keener, John, 2:982.
41. Hoskyns, Fourth Gospel, 461.
42. See Augustine, John, 78.1–3.340–42.
43. Carson, John, 508–9.
44. See Dodd, Interpretation, 409; Calvin, John 11–21, 92. See also H. B. H. Bevan, “Does ‘Arise, Let Us Go Hence’ (John 14:31D) Make Sense Where it Stands?,” JTS 54 (2003): 576–84.
45. The following is adapted from Parsenios, Departure and Consolation, 49–76.
46. Ibid., 66.
47. Fiona Macintosh, Dying Acts: Death in Ancient Greek and Modern Irish Tragic Drama (Cork: Cork University Press, 1994), 94.
48. Parsenios, Departure and Consolation, 75.
49. See Kenneth Berding, Life in the Spirit (Wheaton: Crossway, 2011).