1. See Beasley-Murray, John, 293.
2. Westcott, John, 236–37. Cf. Harold W. Attridge, “How Priestly is the ‘High Priestly Prayer’ of John 17?” CBQ 75 (2013): 1–14.
3. Hoskyns, Fourth Gospel, 495.
4. See Sadananda, The Johannine Exegesis of God, 133–34; Michaels, John, 857.
5. Brown, John, 2:748–50; Cf. Moloney, John, 458–59.
6. The following is adapted from Brown, John, 2:750.
7. Cf. David Alan Black, “On the Style and Significance of John 17,” CTR 3 (1988): 141–59.
8. Cf. Calvin, John 11–21, 134.
9. Ridderbos, John, 548.
10. Cf. Newbigin, The Light Has Come, 226.
11. Carson, John, 554–55.
12. The focus on the Father and Son in these opening verses should not be interpreted to be exclusive of the Spirit. See Francis Watson, “Trinity and Community: A Reading of John 17,” IJST 1 (1999): 168–84 (182).
13. See P. Maritz, “Some Time in John: Tensions between the Hour and Eternity in John 17,” Neot 41 (2007): 112–30.
14. Hoskyns, Fourth Gospel, 498.
15. Cf. Paul S. Minear, “John 17:1–11,” Int 32 (1978): 175–79.
16. Augustine, John, 105.8.398.
17. See Brown, John, 2:755–56; Dodd, Interpretation, 417.
18. See Schlatter, Der Evangelist Johannes, 319–20.
19. Calvin, John 11–21, 140.
20. Michaels, John, 863.
21. Ibid., 864.
22. Cf. Bultmann, John, 500.
23. Cf. Lincoln, John, 436.
24. O’Day, “ ‘I Have Overcome the World,’ ” 162.
25. George L. Parsenios, “ ‘No Longer in the World’ (John 17:11): The Transformation of the Tragic in the Fourth Gospel,” HTR 98 (2005): 1–21 (5).
26. Carson, John, 561.
27. Schnackenburg, John, 3:180.
28. BDAG 1002.
29. Cf. Bultmann, John, 503.
30. Cf. Augustine, John, 107.6.403–4.
31. Barrett, John, 508.
32. Cf. Lincoln, John, 437.
33. BDAG 116.
34. Carson, John, 563.
35. A “son” of destruction is one appointed to destruction. Cf. Calvin, John 11–21, 143.
36. On the narrative role of anonymity, see comments on 1:40.
37. Cf. Keener, John, 2:1004.
38. Barrett, John, 509.
39. Calvin, John 11–21, 144.
40. Cf. Bultmann, John, 508.
41. Cf. BDAG 9–10.
42. Carson, John, 566.
43. Cf. Schnackenburg, John, 3:187.
44. See J. Gerald Janzen, “The Scope of Jesus’s High Priestly Prayer in John 17,” Enc 67 (2006): 1–26 (2–6).
45. Calvin, John 11–21, 147.
46. Barrett, John, 512.
47. Cf. Carson, John, 568.
48. John E. Staton, “A Vision of Unity—Christian Unity in the Fourth Gospel,” EvQ 69 (1997): 291–305.
49. Dodd, Interpretation, 206.
50. Cf. Brown, John, 2:771.
51. See Don M. Aycock, “John 17 and Jesus’s Prayer for Unity,” TTE 38 (1988): 132–44. See also Paul S. Minear, “Evangelism, Ecumenism, and John Seventeen,” ThTo 35 (1978): 5–13.
52. Ridderbos, John, 561. Cf. Hoskyns, Fourth Gospel, 505.
53. Cf. Constantine Scouteris, “The People of God—Its Unity and Its Glory: A Discussion of John 17:17–24 in the Light of Patristic Thought,” GOTR 30 (1985): 399–420 (418).
54. According to Bultmann, the church is to receive this as an exhortation to live “from the future” (John, 519).
55. Cf. Aquinas, John, 3:195.
56. Barrett, John, 515.
57. Cf. Bultmann, John, 521.
58. Calvin, John 11–21, 150.