And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
Ver. 27. And ye also shall bear witness] Thus Word and Spirit go together, according to the promise, Isaiah 59:21. The manna of the Spirit comes down from heaven in the dews of the ministry of the gospel, Numbers 11:2; 1 Peter 1:22 .
YE ALSO SHALL BEAR WITNESS - You shall be witnesses to the world to urge on them the evidences that the Lord Jesus is the Messiah. HAVE BEEN WITH ME - They had for more than three years seen his work...
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...
YE ALSO SHALL BEAR WITNESS. The apostles were double witnesses. They had been with Christ "from the beginning" and knew all the facts. If he had been. deceiver they would have known it. If he was true...
THE VINE AND THE BRANCHES (John 15:1-10)...
"When the Helper comes, the Helper whom I will send to you from my Father, I mean the Spirit of Truth who comes forth from the Father, he will be a witness about me. And you will be witness about me b...
SHALL BEAR WITNESS. testify, or are testifying (present). YE HAVE BEEN. ye are. WITH. Greek. _meta._ App-104. FROM THE BEGINNING. See note on John 8:44....
_And ye also shall bear witness_ Better, NAY, YE ALSO BEAR WITNESS: the verb is present, not future. It is also possible to take the verb as an imperative (comp. John 15:18 and John 14:1), but the con...
ΚΑῚ ὙΜ. ΔῈ Μ. NAY, YE ALSO BEAR WITNESS, or NAY, BEAR YE ALSO WITNESS (Winer, p. 53): but the conjunctions are against μαρτυρεῖτε being imperative; comp. 3 John 1:12 and see on John 15:18 and John 8:1...
VER 26. BUT WHEN THE COMFORTER IS COME, WHOM I WILL SEND TO YOU FROM THE FATHER, EVEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, WHICH PROCEEDS FROM THE FATHER, HE SHALL TESTIFY OF ME. 27. AND YOU ALSO SHALL BEAR WITNESS,...
ΜΑΡΤΥΡΕΊΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΜΑΡΤΥΡΈΩ, _см._ John 15:26. Форма может быть также воспринята как _ind._ (Brown)....
AND YE ALSO SHALT BEAR WITNESS,— "In process of time men's eyes shall be opened, to discern the authority of your testimony. They shall give credit to your reports concerning me, because you have been...
PERSEVERING UNION OF THE PERSECUTED _Text 15:18-27_ 18 If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before it hated you. 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but be...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 15:17-27 The following is an Analysis of the closing section of John 15:— A loving heart would feign discover or induce love everywhere. To be ungratified in th...
And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning. AND YE ALSO - as the other witness required to the validity of testimony among men (Deuteronomy 19:15) SHALL BEAR...
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...
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...
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...
AND YE ALSO SHALL BEAR WITNESS. — The tense is present, _and ye also bear witness;_ or, _and ye also are witnesses._ (Comp. Notes on Luke 24:48.) The Apostles themselves distinguished between their ow...
XIV. _ THE SPIRIT CHRIST'S WITNESS._ "If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated Me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the w...
καὶ ὑμεῖς δὲ μαρτυρεῖτε, “and do ye also witness,” or, if indicative, “and ye also witness”. Most prefer the indicative. “The disciples were already the witnesses which they were to be in the future.”...
to John 16:11. _The conquest of the world by the Spirit_....
SUFFERING FOR JESUS' SAKE John 15:17-27 We have been appointed for the one purpose of bearing imperishable fruit, but our holy service to the world will never be appreciated. The world has its own go...
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...
_You shall give. He vouchsafes to join together the testimony of the Holy Ghost, and of the apostles; that we many see the testimony of truth, jointly to consist in the Holy Ghost, and in the prelates...
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...
“ _But when the support shall have come, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me;_ 27. _and you also shall testify, because you a...
REFLECTIONS Reader! do not fail to observe the intimate oneness and union between Christ and his Church. The vine and its branches are not more closely formed in one, than Jesus and his people. Indeed...
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me. (27) And ye also shall bear witness, beca...
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...
_WITNESS-BEARING_ ‘He shall testify of Me: And ye also shall bear witness.’ John 15:26 There seem to be three points noticeable in this passage. I. THE COMFORTER IS COMING.—Who is He? A Divine per...
_QUALIFICATIONS FOR WITNESS_ ‘And ye also shall hear witness, because ye have been with Me from the beginning.’ John 15:27 Here we see for what our Lord has been preparing His Apostles all along du...
27._And you also bear testimony. _Christ means that the testimony of _the Spirit _will not be of such a nature that the apostles shall have it for their private advantage, or that they alone shall enj...
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...
AND YE SHALL ALSO BEAR WITNESS,.... That is, of Christ; of all the things he did in Jerusalem, and in the land of the Jews; being eyewitnesses, and ministers, or servants of the word, who constantly a...
_If I had not done among them_, &c. If I had wrought no miracle at all among them; nay, if I had not done such extraordinary works as no other man ever did, not even their prophets, or Moses himself;...
YE ALSO; the apostles. FROM THE BEGINNING; the beginning of his public ministry. Matthew 4:17-22; ACTS 1:21-22....
The hatred of the world and the testimony of the Spirit:...
AND YE ALSO SHALL BEAR WITNESS, BECAUSE YE HAVE BEEN WITH ME FROM THE BEGINNING. The position of the unbelieving Jews at the time of Jesus was much like that of Paul, Romans 7:7. If Jesus had not come...
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...
26,27. The blessed Spirit will maintain the cause of Christ in the world, notwithstanding the opposition it meets with. Believers taught and encouraged by his influences, would bear testimony to Chris...
He adds also, they should testify, &c.: the apostles, and their successors, by the preaching of the gospel; but particularly the apostles, ACTS 10:39 1 JOHN 1:2,3, being chosen witnesses, ACTS 10:41....
John 15:27 And G1161 you G5210 also G2532 witness G3140 (G5719) because G3754 been G2075 (G5748) with...
4). THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH AND THE DISCIPLES MUST BEAR WITNESS TOGETHER (JOHN 15:26). The disciples, however, need not fear. They will not be left without assistance. For Jesus will send to them from th...
John 15:26-27. WHEN THE ADVOCATE IS COME, WHOM I WILL SEND ONTO YOU FROM THE FATHER, THE SPIRIT OF THE TRUTH, WHICH GOETH FORTH FROM THE FATHER, HE WILL HEAR WITNESS CONCERNING ME, AND YE ALSO BEAR WI...
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...
AND YE ALSO BEAR WITNESS (κα υμεις δε μαρτυρειτε). Present active indicative or imperative (do ye bear witness), same form of μαρτυρεω. "Ye also" as well as the Holy Spirit, ye also when filled wit...
John 15:26 The Promise of the Spirit witnessing of Christ in the world I. There is to be a testifying of the Spirit in the world, corresponding to our testifying to the world. His testifying is an in...
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...
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...
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. _...
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...
AND YOU, TOO, WILL SPEAK ABOUT ME. As _eyewitnesses,_ they would speak about Christ and tell the Good News of what God had done through him. Compare 1 John 1:1-4; 1 Corinthians 2:6-12....
_And ye also shall bear witness_ TRUE CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY (text in conjunction with John 16:1):--In this we see I. THE SPIRIT OF GODLY HUMILITY. It comes only from the Lord, and serves the Lord only...
_But when the Comforter is come_ THE HOLY SPIRIT: HIS WORK AND MISSION I. THE HOLY SPIRIT. 1. Our text speaks of the Holy Spirit as a Person. “He shall testify;” “and ye also” (see also Joh_16:7-8;...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 15:18. IF THE WORLD HATE YOU, ETC.—He now directs the attention of the disciples to their relation toward the world. Christ _loves_ His disciples, the world _hat...
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 John 1:1; 1 John 1:2; 1 Peter 5:1; 1 Peter 5:12; 2 Peter 1:16;...
Shall bear witness [μ α ρ τ υ ρ ε ι τ ε]. Present tense, bear witness. So Rev. Or, it may be taken as imperative : bear ye witness....