Notes

1. Boyle, “The Last Discourse,” 217.

2. BDAG 781.

3. Ridderbos, John, 543. Cf. Schlatter, Der Evangelist Johannes, 316.

4. Cf. Augustine, John, 102.5.391.

5. Morris, John, 630. According to Bultmann, this verse is stated “almost as a doctrinal statement” (John, 589).

6. Michaels, John, 851.

7. Hoskyns, Fourth Gospel, 491.

8. Cf. Barrett, John, 497; Calvin, John 11–21, 131.

9. The phrase could also be taken as an exclamatory statement: “Now you believe!”

10. Cf. Bultmann, John, 592.

11. Ibid., 584.

12. BDAG 444.

13. Gail R. O’Day, “ ‘I Have Overcome the World’ (John 16:33): Narrative Time in John 13–17,” Semeia 53 (1991): 153–65 (162).

14. Bultmann, John, 584.