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John 15:15
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth; but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of My Father I have made known unto you.
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth; but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of My Father I have made known unto you.
Verse John 15:15. _HENCEFORTH I CALL YOU NOT SERVANTS_] Which he at least indirectly had done, John 13:16; Matthew 10:24; Luke 17:10....
I CALL YOU NOT SERVANTS - This had been the common title by which he addressed them Matthew 10:24; John 12:26; John 13:13; but he had also before this, on one occasion, called them friends...
CHAPTER 15 1. The Vine and the Branch. (John 15:1 .) 2. Communion with Him and its Conditions.(John 15:9 .) 3. Love One Another! and the Hatred of the World. (John 15:17 .) Israel is called a vine...
JOHN 15. THE VINE. The relation of the following Chapter s to 14 has been discussed. The Parœ mia, or parable-like discourse, reminds us of the parable or metaphor of the Good Shepherd in ch. 10. Two...
CALL YOU NOT SERVANTS... I HAVE CALLED YOU FRIENDS. Christ's disciples serve him, but their service is not bondage, but that of love. Hence, they are friends instead of servants. They have his presen...
"I have spoken these things to you that my joy might be in you, and that your joy might be complete. This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you. No one has greater love tha...
THE VINE AND THE BRANCHES (John 15:1-10)...
HENCEFORTH... NOT. No longer. Greek. _ouketi,_ compound of ou. SERVANTS. bondservants. KNOWETH. App-132. NOT. Greek. _ou._ App-105. LORD. Greek _kurios._ App-98. OF _ =_ with. Greek _para._ App-1...
_Henceforth I call you not servants_ Better, NO LONGER DO I CALL YOU _servants_(comp. John 14:30 and see on John 8:34). He had implied that they were servants before (John 12:26;...
ΟΥ̓ΚΈΤΙ. NO LONGER _do I call you servants_ (see on John 8:34 and comp. John 14:30. He had implied that they were His servants John 12:26 and stated it John
THE UNION OF THE DISCIPLES WITH ONE ANOTHER IN CHRIST...
Ver 12. This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you. 13. Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14. You are my friends, if you do w...
ΕΪΡΗΚΑ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить, ΉΚΟΥΣΑ _aor._ ind-. _act. от_ ΆΚΟΎΩ (G191) слышать, ΈΓΝΏΡΙΣΑ _aor. ind. act._ от. ΓΝΩΡΊΖΩ (G1107) делать известным. _Aor._ относится к завершенным...
DISCOURSE: 1696 CHRIST’S FOLLOWERS HIS FRIENDS John 15:15. _Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I h...
HENCEFORTH I CALL YOU NOT SERVANTS;— "Though the distance that is between you and me, and your obligations to obey me, might have warranted me to treat you as servants, and particularly to conceal fro...
FRANK UNION OF FRIENDS _Text 15:12-17_ 12 This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his f...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS Special Study THE CHRISTIAN SYNDROME (John 15:1-17) If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my life; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. Thes...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 15:7-16 Below is an Analysis of the second section of John 15:— That the theme of this second section of John 15 is the same as was before us in its opening por...
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. HENCEFO...
12 As the Lord had explained in His kingdom proclamation, the whole law was included in the one word, love. Love to God and love to man is far more than all the precepts of the law. So, in His final c...
15:15 of (d-31) _ Para_ with gen.. see Note a, ch. 6.45....
THE TRUE YINE. THE WITNESS OF THE COMFORTER AND OF THE APOSTLES 1-17. The allegory of the True Vine and its interpretation. The metaphor of 'the vine' was suggested by 'the fruit of the vine' which ha...
ALL THINGS] This apparently contradicts John 16:12; (cp. John 14:26), but only apparently. Christ's teaching during His ministry was complete in the sense that it set forth all the principles of Chris...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 15 JESUS TEACHES ABOUT THE *VINE AND THE BRANCHES 15:1-17 V1 Then Jesus said, ‘I am like the perfect *vine. My *Father...
HENCEFORTH I CALL YOU NOT SERVANTS. — Better, _I call you no longer,_ or, _I do not still call you, servants._ (Comp. John 14:30.) For the word “servant,” as applied to them, comp. John 12:26; John 13...
XIII. _ NOT SERVANTS, BUT FRIENDS._ "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are My friends, if ye do the things which I command you. No longer do I call y...
“Friends” who may expect all the good offices of their Friend, not “slaves,” is the character in which alone you can carry on my work: οὐκέτι ὑμᾶς λέγω δούλους … ὑμῖν. The designation “slave” is no lo...
_The disciples are urged to fulfil Christ's purposes in the world, and are assured that if they abide in the love of Christ they will receive all they need for fruit-bearing_....
“I HAVE CALLED YOU FRIENDS” John 15:10-16 We must estimate the Father's love to Jesus before we can measure His love to us. We are told to love one another with the same love, but enabling power is n...
Our Lord now uttered the great allegory of the vine. Certain words in it arrest our attention, "the vine," "the branches," "the fruit." The close interrelationship between these is emphasized, and our...
(4) Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. (4) T...
CHAPTER 23 THE VALEDICTORY SERMON John 14-16. Now that the Passover meal has been enjoyed, and that celebrated Mosaic institution totally eclipsed by bloody Calvary, normally verified and abolished f...
1. 15:1-17. After the words: “Let us go hence,” Jesus and the disciples left the room which had just been to them, as it were, the vestibule of the Father's house. Whither do they go? According to _We...
VV. 15 serves to prove the _reality_ of this position of friends which He has given them. He has shown an unbounded confidence in them by initiating them unreservedly into the communications which His...
“ _You are my friends, if you do whatsoever I command you._ 15. _I call you no longer servants, because the servant knows not what his master does; but I have named you friends, because I have made kn...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 12-17. 1. The statement of John 15:13 is, of course, to be interpreted in view of the subject which is occupying the thought of Jesus. The love of enemie...
II. THE POSITION OF THE DISCIPLES IN THE WORLD AFTER THE OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT: 15:1-16:15. Jesus had just promised to His own, in ch. 14, the twofold reunion, heavenly and earthly, in which the se...
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. (10) If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his lov...
In John 15:1-27 our Lord substitutes Himself for Israel, as the plant of God, responsible to bear fruit for Him on earth (not merely for man, as such, openly sinful and lost). He takes the place of th...
_FRIENDS OF JESUS_ ‘Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of My Father I have made known...
15._Henceforth I will not call you servants. _By another argument he shows his love toward the disciples, which was, that he opened his mind fully to them, as familiar communication is maintained amon...
The beginning of this chapter, and that which relates to the vine, belongs to the earthly portion to that which Jesus was on earth to His relationship with His disciples as on the earth, and does not...
HENCEFORTH I CALL YOU NOT SERVANTS,.... As they and the rest of the people of God had been, under the legal dispensation; for though they were children, yet differed nothing from servants; and were ve...
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. Ver. 15....
_Greater love_ To his friends, (of whom here he only speaks,) _hath no man than this_ That is, a greater degree of love than this never existed in the world; _that a man lay down his life for his frie...
I CALL YOU NOT SERVANTS; do not treat you as servants in merely commanding you, but as friends, in communicating to you my plans, and the reasons of them....
THE MINISTRY OF EXHORTATION CHRIST THE TRUE VINE (vs.1-8) The Lord's ministry of comfort, or of binding up, has been seen in chapter 14. Now in chapter 15 it is that of stirring up, or of exhortatio...
9-17 Those whom God loves as a Father, may despise the hatred of all the world. As the Father loved Christ, who was most worthy, so he loved his disciples, who were unworthy. All that love the Saviou...
By his saying, I CALL YOU NOT SERVANTS, he doth not discharge them of that duty and service which they owed to him; for in pressing them to obey his commandments, he declares that duty they owed to hi...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV But this is our Lord, the Word of God, who in the first instance certainly drew slaves to God, but afterwards He set those free who were subject to Him, as He does H...
John 15:15 longer G3765 call G3004 (G5719) you G5209 servants G1401 for G3754 servant G1401 not G3756 know...
“I no longer call you servants, for the servant does not know what his lord is doing, but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you”. It had b...
2). AS THE NEW ISRAEL THE DISCIPLES ARE TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER (JOHN 15:12). The fruit required of the branches of the vine is now clearly expressed. As branches of the true Vine they are to love one ano...
John 15:15. NO LONGER DO I CALL YOU SERVANTS, BECAUSE THE SERVANT KNOWETH NOT WHAT HIS LORD DOETH; but I have called you friends, because all things that I heard from my Father I made known unto you....
We have already considered the circumstances under which the two Chapter s upon which we now enter were spoken; and, if we have been correct in the view taken of them, we are not to imagine that the f...
NO LONGER (ουκετ). As he had done in John 13:16. He was their Rabbi (John 1:38; John 13:13) and Lord (John 13:13). Paul gloried in calling himself Christ's δ...
HENCEFORTH PROGRESSIVE INTIMACY IN JOHN: Servants, (John 13:13); Friends (John 15:15); Brethren, (John 20:17)....
John 15:12. _This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you._ O beloved, do keep this commandment! Overlook each other's infirmities. Bear with each other's faults. Love one an...
Thus speaks the Lord Jesus: John 15:1. _I am the true vine,_ Many questions have been raised about which is the true Church; the Saviour answers them, «I am the true vine.» All who are united, reall...
John 15:1. _I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman._ Not only the Mosaic law, but the whole creation is full of types of Christ. All the vines that we see in this world are only as it we...
Many of you know the words of this chapter by heart; you could repeat them without a mistake. May the savor of them abide in your hearts even as the letter of them abides in your memory! John 15:1. _...
John 15:9. _As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you:_ Oh, drink this nectar down! It is as when Cleopatra dissolved the pearl into a single draught; for here is the choicest pearl of truth t...
CONTENTS: Jesus' discourse on the vine and the branches. The believer and the world. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, disciples. CONCLUSION: Jesus is the true vine, in which the life of believers, as abiding...
John 15:1. _I am the true vine._ The vine through every age had designated the Hebrew church; here the Lord employs it to designate the Christian church, of which he is the head, and the source of lif...
15. INSTEAD, I CALL YOU FRIENDS. Compare James 2:21-24....
_This is My commandment, that ye love one another_ THE GREAT COMMANDMENT OF CHRIST I. THE LOVE OF CHRIST. Remember 1. How free it was. We did not merit it, ask for it, nor even desire it. And here i...
_Ye are My friends if ye do whatsoever I command you_ CHRIST’S FRIENDS Notice I. WHAT CHRIST’S FRIENDS DO FOR HIM (John 15:16). In the former verse, “friends” means chiefly those whom He loved. Her...
_Henceforth I call you not servants_ SLAVE OR FRIEND? The word used was the word for slave, though not always used in the most ignominious relation. The word “friends” is _philos, _something more th...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 15:1 The OT frequently uses the vineyard or vine as a symbol for Israel, God’s covenant people. Note the two “vineyard songs” in Isaiah 1:1 ...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 15:1. TRUE VINE.—Christ and the disciples were now on the way to Gethsemane. Their passing through the vineyards, etc., surrounding the city may have suggested th...
EXPOSITION JOHN 15:1 (7) _The parable of the vine and its branches_._ Incorporation of the disciples into one personality with himself_._ _The image of the vine may have been suggested by some visib...
Tonight let's turn now to John's gospel chapter 15, as we follow Jesus in His last hours prior to the cross. Jesus had been at the last supper with His disciples there in the upper room somewhere in J...
1 Corinthians 2:9; 1 Peter 1:11; 2 Kings 6:8; 2 Peter 1:1; Acts 20:27
Henceforth - not [ο υ κ ε τ ι]. Rev., better, no longer. No longer servants, as you were under the dispensation of the law. Compare Galatians 4:7. Servants [δ ο υ λ ο υ ς]. Strictly, bond - servants....
THE HOLY GHOST John 15:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We are confronted with one of the great themes of Scripture. The word "Ghost" is an old English word meaning "guest." The Holy Spirit is the Holy Ghost,...
All things — Which might be of service to you....
By these words Christ declares the reason why he was pleased to change his stile, and call his disciples friends instead of servants: namely, because of his communication of secrets to them, which ser...