Robertson Word Pictures - John 17:3 - 17:3

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Robertson Word Pictures - John 17:3 - 17:3


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Should know (ginōskōsin). Present active subjunctive with hina (subject clause), “should keep on knowing.”

Even Jesus Christ (Iēsoun Christon). See Joh 1:17 for the only other place in John’s Gospel where the words occur together. Coming here in the Lord’s own prayer about himself they create difficulty, unless, as Westcott suggests, Christon be regarded as a predicate accusative, “Jesus as the Christ” (Messiah). Otherwise the words would seem to be John’s parenthetical interpretation of the idea of Jesus. Lucke thinks that the solemnity of this occasion explains Jesus referring to himself in the third person. The knowledge of “the only true God” is through Jesus Christ (Joh 14:6-9).