1. Cf. Jan G. Van der Watt, “ ‘Metaphorik’ in Joh 15,1–8,” BZ 38 (1994): 67–80.
2. Cf. Bernard, John, 2:478; Barrett, John, 472–73; Keener, John, 2:988–93.
3. Keener, John, 2:993.
4. See Brown, John, 2:672–74; Barrett, John, 472–73.
5. See Bernard, John, 2:478.
6. Gary M. Burge, “Territorial Religion, Johannine Christology, and the Vineyard of John 15,” in Green and Turner, Jesus of Nazareth, 384–96 (392).
7. See Dodd, Interpretation, 136.
8. Cf. Ridderbos, John, 516.
9. On the origin of this interpretation, see J. Carl Laney, “Abiding is Believing: The Analogy of the Vine in John 15:1–6,” BSac 146 (1989): 55–66. Cf. Arthur W. Pink, Exposition of the Gospel of John, 3 vols. (Cleveland: Cleveland Bible Truth Depot, 1929; repr., Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1975), 805–8.
10. Cf. Newbigin, The Light Has Come, 197.
11. BDAG 630–31.
12. Cf. Fernando F. Segovia, “The Theology and Provenance of John 15:1–17,” JBL 101 (1982): 115–28 (121).
13. Wallace, Greek Grammar, 720.
14. Michaels, John, 804.
15. Carson, John, 518.
16. Hoskyns, Fourth Gospel, 476.
17. Ridderbos, John, 519.
18. Boyle, “The Last Discourse,” 216, suggests that this verse is “the central verse of the whole Discourse, not merely arithmetically (it is that!), but also thematically.”
19. Cf. Keener, John, 2:1004.
20. Cf. Hoskyns, Fourth Gospel, 477.
21. Cf. Augustine, John, 83.3.349.
22. Morris, John, 598.
23. See Keener, John, 2:1004–15; Carson, John, 521–22.
24. Keener, John, 2:1006–11.
25. See Barrett, John, 478.
26. Cf. Schlatter, Der Evangelist Johannes, 305; Hoskyns, Fourth Gospel, 478.
27. Bultmann describes faith and love as a unity (John, 547).
28. Ridderbos, John, 522.