13:1–17:26. Farewell discourse
The discourse section is difficult to outline because it is more concerned with developing repetitive themes than with following a precise arrangement.7990 The discourse proper starts in 13or 13:317991 (some even start it in 14:1,7992 but this is too late; questions intervene not only in 13but throughout, as in 14:5, 8, 22). But while the discourse starts well after 13:1, the first part of the discourse interprets Jesus» act of foot washing and so cannot be separated from that act in our outline; we regard the foot washing as the narrative introduction to the Farewell Discourse that prefigures the passion.7993
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With others, e.g., Whitacre, John, 340. On the pervasive repetition of several themes, see also Kennedy, Interpretation, 85.
Segovia, Farewell, 61–62, prefers 13:31, probably correctly.
Cf. Lombard and Oliver, «Supper.»
For patristic exegesis of the discourse, see Bammel, «Discourse.»