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Authority over all flesh (exousian pasēs sarkos). Sarkos is objective genitive. Stupendous claim impossible for a mere man to make. Made already in Mat 11:27; Luk 10:22 (Q, the Logia of Jesus, our earliest known document about Jesus) and repeated in Mat 28:18 after his resurrection.
That (hina). Secondary purpose with hina dōsei (future active indicative) carrying on the idea of hina doxasēi. See Joh 13:34; Joh 17:21 for hina, kathōs, hina.
Whatsoever (pān ho). A peculiar classical Greek idiom, the collective use of the singular pān ho as in Joh 6:37, Joh 6:39 and ho in Joh 17:24 and the nominative absolute (nom. pendens) with autois (to them), the dative plural explaining the construction. See Robertson, Grammar, p. 653.