THE ANCHOR YALE BIBLE

THE GOSPEL

ACCORDING TO

JOHN

(XIII–XXI)

Introduction, Translation, and Notes

by

RAYMOND E. BROWN, S.S.

VOLUME 29 A

THE ANCHOR YALE BIBLE

First published in 1974 by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. First Yale University Press impression 2008.

Copyright © 1974 by Yale University as assignee from Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.

First published in 1970 by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. First Yale University Press impression 2008.

Copyright © 1970 by Yale University as assignee from Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.

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January 27, 1970, New York

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This completed commentary is dedicated

to my father

in his seventieth year

A small gesture of gratitude

for a lifetime of generosity

Preface

The original plan of the Anchor Bible series was to complete the work on the Johannine Gospel and Epistles within two volumes. However, the expansion of the series to include the Apocrypha made other adjustments possible, and the editors have graciously approved a third volume for the Johannine writings. Volumes 29 and 29A (the present volume) treat the Fourth Gospel; volume 30 will be devoted to the Epistles of John. The present writer is particularly pleased to have a full volume devoted to chapters 13–21 of the Gospel; for while these chapters are shorter than chapters 1–12, the Passion and Resurrection accounts contained in them require detailed comparison with the Synoptic Gospels. The indexes in the present volume cover both Gospel volumes. Because there are many references to verses in the first half of the Gospel, an appendix (VI) has been included for the convenience of the reader, giving the English translation of chapters 1–12, as it was printed section by section in volume 29.

Volume 29 was published in 1966, and so an interval of four years has passed before the completion of the commentary. In part the interval was taken up by another project to which there was a previous ...