Will ye also go away ? (2 Kal duets Jédere Urdyew). The interrogative particle 47 shows that a negative answer is ex- pected. Surely ye will not. Will ye go is not the future tense of the verb ¢o go, but is expressed by two words, do ye will (9ére7¢), to go away (brrayew). Rev., would ye. On the verb to go away, see on they went (ver. 21).
68. Simon Peter. Assailants of the authenticity of John’s Gospel have asserted that it reveals an effort on the part of the writer to claim for the disciple whom Jesus loved a pre-emi- nence above Peter. The assertion is effectually contradicted by the narrative itself. Seei.42; vi.68; xiii.6; xviii. 10, 16; xx. 2, 7; xxi. 3, 7,11, and notes on those passages. Peter’s replying for the twelve, in this passage, is a case in point.
The words of eternal life (fata Swijs aiwviov). There is no article. Thou hast words. Words of life are words which carry life with them. Compare the phrases bread of life, light
of life, water of life, tree of life.
69. Are sure (éyvexapev). Lit., have come to know. The order of the words believe and know is reversed in xvii. 8; 1 John iv. 16. In the case of the first disciples, facth, produced by the overpowering impression of Jesus’ works and person, preceded intellectual conviction.
That Christ, the Son of the living God. The best texts substitute 6 dyvos Tod Ocod, the holy one of God. The other reading has resulted from the attempt to bring Peter’s confes- sion here into accord with that in Matt. xvi. 16. The two con- fessions differ in that “here the confession points to the inward character in which the Apostles found the assurance of life ; there the confession was of the public office and theocratic person of the Lord” (Westcott).
70. A devil (Sué8or0s). See on Matt. iv.1. The word is an adjective, meaning slanderous, but is almost invariably used in the New Testament as a noun, and with the definite article. The article is wanting only in 1 Pet. v. 8; Acts xiii. 10; Apoc.