Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Should know (ginwskwsin). Present active subjunctive with ina (subject clause), "should keep on knowing."
Even Jesus Christ (Ihsoun Xriston). See John 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, Xriston 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 (John 14:6-9).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 17:3:
Matthew 23:10
Luke 4:18
Luke 6:13
John 1:17
John 3:15
John 3:19
John 4:34
John 5:44
John 7:29
John 13:31
John 17:1
John 17:4
John 17:8
1 Timothy 1:17
Hebrews 3:1
1 John 5:3
1 John 5:20
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