Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 13:34
A new commandment — Not new in itself; but new in the school of Christ: for he had never before taught it them expressly. Likewise new, as to the degree of it, as I have loved you.
A new commandment — Not new in itself; but new in the school of Christ: for he had never before taught it them expressly. Likewise new, as to the degree of it, as I have loved you.
Verse 34. _A NEW COMMANDMENT I GIVE UNTO YOU_] In what sense are we to understand that this was a _new_ commandment? _Thou shalt love_ _thy neighbour as thyself_, was a positive precept of the law, L...
A NEW COMMANDMENT - This command he gave them as he was about to leave them, to be a badge of discipleship, by which they might be known as his friends and followers, and by which they might be distin...
CHAPTER 13 _ 1. The Washing of the Disciples' Feet. (John 13:1 .)_ 2. Instructions given; to Wash One Another's Feet. (John 13:12 .) 3. The Betrayal Foretold. (John 13:18 .) 4. His Own Departure an...
JOHN 13:33 TO JOHN 17:26. THE LAST DISCOURSES AND PRAYER. Perhaps this is the best place to consider the general arrangement and character of the final discourses. They present the same problems of st...
NEW COMMANDMENT. GIVE UNTO YOU. The commandment to love was not new, but such love as the Savior commanded was new. It was such love for each other as he had shown for them that he commanded. That lov...
THE ROYALTY OF SERVICE (John 13:1-17)...
"Little children, I am still going to be with you for a little while. You will search for me; and, as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you too: 'You cannot go where I am going.' I give you a new co...
NEW. Greek. _kainos._ See note on Matthew 9:17....
_A new commandment_ The commandment to love was not new, for -thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself" (Leviticus 19:18) was part of the Mosaic Law. But the motive is new; to love our neighbour becau...
John 13:31 TO JOHN 15:27. Christ's Love in keeping His own 31 35. Jesus, freed from the oppressive presence of the traitor, bursts out into a declaration that the glorification of the Son of Man has b...
ἘΝΤΟΛῊΝ ΚΑΙΝΉΝ. The commandment to love was not new, for ‘thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself’ (Leviticus 19:18) was part of the Mosaic Law. But the motive is new; to love our neighbour because C...
31–35. Jesus, freed from the oppressive presence of the traitor, bursts out into a declaration that the glorification of the Son of Man has begun. Judas is already beginning that series of events whic...
VER 33. LITTLE CHILDREN, YET A LITTLE WHILE I AM WITH YOU. YOU SHALL SEEK ME: AND AS I SAID TO THE JEWS, WHITHER I GO, YOU CANNOT COME; SO NOW I SAY TO YOU. 34. A NEW COMMANDMENT I GIVE TO YOU, THAT Y...
_JESUS GAVE A “NEW COMMANDMENT” -- JOHN 13:31-35:_ Jesus had already been glorified by coming to provide man with his only means of redemption. He would soon be glorified even more through His death,...
ΑΓΑΠΆΤΕ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΑΓΑΠΆΩ (G25) любить. _Conj._ с ΪΝ (G2443) выражает результат. Передает содержание новой заповеди, ΚΑΘΏΣ (G2531) как, указывает на стандарт или способ выражения любви,...
A NEW COMMANDMENT I GIVE— Our Lord calls this a new commandment, not because mutual love had never been enjoined on mankind before, but because it was a precept of peculiar excellence: for the word _n...
THE SACRIFICING SERVANT OF CHRIST _Text 13:31-38_ 31 When therefore he was gone out, Jesus saith, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him; 32 and God shall glorify him in him...
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. A NEW COMMANDMENT I GIVE UNTO YOU, THAT YE LOVE ONE ANOTHER; AS [`EVEN AS' kathoos ...
34 As our Lord is about to leave His beloved disciples, He compresses His ministry into one new precept-love. That was to be their law and their life and make them a light in the world. This should ch...
THE LAST SUPPER 1-17. The Supper and the Feet-washing. This supper is identified by almost all modern authorities with the Last Supper, which took place on Thursday night at Jerusalem (Matthew 26:20;...
A NEW COMMANDMENT] Love is the fulfilling of the Law. The old commandment to love one another (Leviticus 19:18), which our Lord regarded as the essential feature of the Law, is now reenacted in a high...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 13 JESUS WASHES HIS *DISCIPLES’ FEET 13:1-11 V1 It was the day before the *Passover. Jesus knew that it was time for hi...
A NEW COMMANDMENT I GIVE UNTO YOU, THAT YE LOVE ONE ANOTHER. — There is no reference in the context to the Ten Commandments, and we are not therefore to seek the meaning of the “new commandment” in an...
VIII. _ JESUS ANNOUNCES HIS DEPARTURE._ "When therefore he was gone out, Jesus saith, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in Him; and God shall glorify Him in Himself, and straightwa...
to John 14:31 comprise one continuous conversation, introduced by Jesus' announcement (John 13:31-35) of His speedy departure....
ἐντολὴν καινὴν δίδωμι ὑμῖν, ἵνα ἀγαπᾶτε ἀλλήλους : “one another,” not “all men,” which is a different commandment. So, rightly, Grotius: “ _Novum_ autem dicit quia non agit de dilectione communi omniu...
THE SIGN AND SEAL OF DISCIPLESHIP John 13:31-38 It was a relief when the traitor was gone. The Lord could now speak freely of His love and of His approaching glory, expatiating on the shining tablela...
For a time our Lord now devoted Himself to His own, and in this connection we have the account of His washing the disciples' feet. The whole action was Eastern, and was the action of a slave: By what...
The commandment of mutual love had been previously given, but evidently misconstrued and abridged by the Jews to friends only, to this life only, and for earthly respects: but Jesus Christ reneweth it...
DESIGNATION AND WITHDRAWAL OF JUDAS Matthew 26:21-25; Mark 14:18-21; Luke 22:21-23; John 13:21-35. “Jesus, sayi
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 31-38. 1. The departure of Judas, leaving Jesus alone with His faithful disciples, turns His thoughts again to the glory and triumph awaiting Him, comp. J...
“ _My little children, yet a little while I am with you; you will seek me, and, as I said to the Jews: Whither I go, you cannot come, so now I say to you._ 34. _I give you a new commandment, that you...
Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. (32) If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway...
The point at which we have arrived gives me an opportunity of saying a little on the beginning of this chapter, and the end of the last; for it is well known that many men, and, I am sorry to add, not...
_THE NEW COMMANDMENT_ ‘A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you.’ John 13:34 The command to love is always new. Every individual and every generation must ha...
_CHRISTIAN PHILANTHROPY_ ‘By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another: even as I loved you, that ye also may love one another.’ John 13:34 (R.V. marg.) Phila...
34._A new commandment I give you. _To the consolation he adds an exhortation,_that they should love one another; _as if he had said, “Yet while I am absent from you in body, testify, by mutual love, t...
Now, then, the Lord has taken His place as going to the Father. The time was come for it. He takes His place above, according to the counsels of God, and is no longer in connection with a world that h...
A NEW COMMANDMENT I GIVE UNTO YOU,.... As parents, when they take their leave of their children, in their dying moments, give them proper instructions and orders, and lay their dying injunctions on th...
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. Ver. 34. _A new commandment, &c._] New, _ratione claritatis et facilatis; _ for now th...
_Little children_ An expression intended to signify both their weakness and his tenderness and compassion; as if he had said, Ye whom I love with parental tenderness, and whom my heart pities under al...
A NEW COMMANDMENT; new as to its peculiar application to Christians, the clearness and power with which it was taught, and the motives with which it was enforced. One decisive evidence of love to Chri...
A NEW COMMANDMENT I GIVE UNTO YOU, THAT YE LOVE ONE ANOTHER; AS I HAVE LOVED YOU, THAT YE ALSO LOVE ONE ANOTHER....
CONCERNING CHRIST'S GLORIFICATION. God glorified in the Son:...
WASHING HIS DISCIPLES' FEET (vs.1-17) We are brought now to consider the last hours of the Lord Jesus before the cross. No longer does He minister to the world, but to His own disciples, from chapte...
31-35 Christ had been glorified in many miracles he wrought, yet he speaks of his being glorified now in his sufferings, as if that were more than all his other glories in his humbled state. Satisfac...
The commandment of loving one another is strictly no new commandment, we find it in the law of Moses, LEVITICUS 19:18; often pressed in the New Testament, 1 Thessalonians 15:17 Ephesians 5:2...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans And again, "A new commandment give I unto you, that ye love one another. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."[43] Constitutions of the...
John 13:34 new G2537 commandment G1785 give G1325 (G5719) you G5213 that G2443 love G25 (G5725) another...
THE PATH TO GLORY WHICH JESUS MUST TREAD ALONE (JOHN 13:31). The opening two verses reflect Jesus' awareness of the pivotal nature of the situation. As He thought back to the glory which had been His...
“Little children, I am with you for a little while longer. You will look for me, and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you, where I am going you cannot come. A new commandment I give to you, that...
John 13:34. A NEW COMMANDMENT I GIVE UNTO YOU, THAT YE LOVE ONE ANOTHER; EVEN AS I LOVED YOU THAT YE ALSO MAY LOVE ONE ANOTHER. The new commandment is love, such love as Jesus had Himself exhibited, a...
Judas has now gone out; Jesus is alone with the disciples whom He loved; and the last disturbing element has been removed from the midst of the little company. But the hour is come when the servants m...
NEW (καινην). First, in contrast with the old (αρχαιος, παλαιος), the very adjective used in 1 John 2:7) of the "commandment" (εντολην) at once called old (παλαια). They had had it a long time, but...
John 13:34 I. Look at the command of brotherly love as it was given in old time. It was contained in the last six of the Ten Commandments; or putting on one side the fifth commandment as being of a pe...
John 13:34 I. The new commandment has been once for all uttered the new law is given; and each generation, at whatever point of the advance to its fulfilment God may have ordained its place, is bound...
CONTENTS: Last Passover. Jesus washes disciples' feet. Betrayal foretold, also Peter's denial. CHARACTERS: Jesus, God, Judas, disciples, Peter, Satan. CONCLUSION: What was consistent with the dignity...
John 13:1. _Before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come._ What now transpired was on the Tuesday, while at supper in the house of Simon. Judas was now rebuked before all p...
A NEW COMMANDMENT. _So you must love one another._ This is _new_ because the love of Christ's friends for Christ's sake was [and is] a new thing in the world. It is new in _kind,_ rather than _degree....
_A new commandment I give unto you_ THE NEW COMMANDMENT I. WHY IS THIS CALLED NEW? 1. Negatively. Not as if it was not enjoined before (1 John 2:7; Leviticus 19:18). 2. Positively. (1) Newly freed...
LOVING AND GIVING Love one another. John 13:34. When Jesus knew that His earthly life was nearly ended and that the time had come when He should be parted from His disciples, He left them this mess...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 13:34 LOVE must be the distinguishing mark of Jesus’ disciples (compare John 15:13;...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 13:31. THEREFORE, WHEN HE WAS GONE OUT, JESUS SAITH, ETC.—“Ye are not all clean,” Jesus had said; but now the traitor had gone, and a higher spiritual teaching wa...
EXPOSITION IV. THE FINAL MANIFESTATIONS IN WORD AND ACTION OF THE LOGOS INCARNATE, EXPRESSING ITSELF ABSOLUTELY AND TO THE UTTERMOST AS
Let's turn to the thirteenth chapter of the gospel according to John. We have come into a new section of the gospel of John, which carries us through chapter 17. And Chapter s 13 through 17 cover a pe...
1 Corinthians 12:26; 1 Corinthians 12:27; 1 Corinthians 13:4; 1 John 2:8;...
New [κ α ι ν η ν]. See on Matthew 26:29. Commandment [ε ν τ ο λ η ν]. The word for a single commandment or injunction, but used also for the whole body of the moral precepts of Christianity. See 1 Tim...
Our Saviour having mentioned his departure from his disciples in the former verse; I GO AWAY, AND, WHITHER. GO YE CANNOT COME: in this and the following verses, he gives them. strict charge, that in h...