Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 15:21
All these things will they do to you, because they know not him that sent me — And in all ages and nations they who know not God will, for this cause, hate and persecute those that do.
All these things will they do to you, because they know not him that sent me — And in all ages and nations they who know not God will, for this cause, hate and persecute those that do.
Verse John 15:21. _BECAUSE THEY KNOW NOT HIM THAT SENT ME._] This is the foundation of all religious persecution: those who are guilty of it, whether in Church or state, know nothing about God. If Go...
MY NAME’S SAKE - On my account. Because you are my followers and possess my spirit. See the notes at John 14:13. BECAUSE THEY KNOW NOT HIM THAT SENT ME - They will not believe that God has sent me. Th...
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...
ALL THESE THINGS WILL THEY DO UNTO YOU FOR MY NAME'S SAKE. The name of Christ, so sweet to his followers, is an object of hatred to his enemies. Not many months passed after these words were uttered u...
THE VINE AND THE BRANCHES (John 15:1-10)...
"If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have pi...
UNTO. The received text has the dative, but all the texts read _eis_ (App-104.) FOR MY NAME'S SAKE. on account of (Greek. dia. App-104.John 15:2; John 15:2) My name. See Acts 4:7;...
The Hatred of the World to both Him and them In strong contrast to the love and union between Christ and His disciples and among the disciples themselves is the hatred of the world to Him and them. H...
_for my name's sake_ This thought is to turn their suffering into joy. Comp. Acts 5:41; Acts 21:13; 2 Corinthians 12:10; Galatians 6:14;...
ἈΛΛΆ. _But_ be of good cheer, it is διὰ τὸ ὄνομα μου. This thought is to turn their suffering into joy: Acts 5:41; Acts 21:13; 2 Corinthians 12:10;...
THE HATRED OR THE WORLD TO BOTH HIM AND THEM In strong contrast to the love and union between Christ and His disciples and among the disciples themselves is the hatred of the world to Him and them. He...
Ver 17. These things I command you, that you love one another. 18. If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you. 19. If you were of the world, the world would love his own: bu...
ΠΟΙΉΣΟΥΣΙΝ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ (G4160) делать, ΠΈΜΨΑΝΤΑ _aor. act. part. от_ ΠΈΜΠΩ (G3992) посылать. Subst. part. ставит акцент на лице, выполняющем действие. Длительный _praes._...
BUT ALL THESE THINGS WILL THEY DO, &C— "None of the evils which you shall suffer on my account, or the gospel's, will flow from any deficiency in the evidences of my divine mission, or from any fault...
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...
But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me. BUT ALL THESE THINGS WILL THEY DO UNTO YOU FOR MY NAME'S SAKE, BECAUSE THEY KNOW NOT HIM THAT...
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...
THE WORLD'S HATRED] cp. the similar predictions, Matthew 10:16; Matthew 24:9; Luke 21:12; Luke 21:16 cp. also...
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...
BUT ALL THESE THINGS WILL THEY DO UNTO YOU. — These words are themselves an interpretation of the previous verse. They suppose the persecution and hatred to take place, and find the true consolation i...
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...
_The relation of the disciples to the world_....
ἀλλά. “But” be not dismayed at persecution, for “all these things they will do to you _for my name's sake_ ”. ταῦτα πάντα seems to involve that details had been given (_cf._ Matthew 10:16 ff.) which w...
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...
(7) But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me. (7) The hatred that the world bears against Christ proceeds from the stupidity of the mind,...
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 they will do all this to you for my name's sake, because they know not him who sent me._ 22. _If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for...
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...
21._But all these things they will do to you. _As the fury of the world is monstrous, when it is so enraged against the doctrine of its own salvation, Christ assigns the reason to be, that it is hurri...
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...
BUT ALL THESE THINGS WILL THEY DO UNTO YOU,.... Christ here signifies, that all the hatred and persecutions raised against his people by the world, would not be on their own account, for any evil acti...
But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me. Ver. 21. _Because they know not him, &c._] For had they known, they would not have crucified the...
_These things I command you_, &c. Again I would remind you, that if you would continue thus to be the objects of these my Father's gracious regards, you must carefully practise your duty to each other...
FOR MY NAME'S SAKE; on account of your likeness and attachment to me. KNOW NOT HIM THAT SENT ME; and therefore have not known me nor you. Chap John 8:19....
BUT ALL THESE THINGS WILL THEY DO UNTO YOU FOR MY NAME'S SAKE, BECAUSE THEY KNOW NOT HIM THAT SENT ME. The Lord again summarizes all the demands of Christian life in the one command, namely, that the...
The result of the Christians' calling:...
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...
18-25 How little do many persons think, that in opposing the doctrine of Christ as our Prophet, Priest, and King, they prove themselves ignorant of the one living and true God, whom they profess to w...
FOR MY NAME'S SAKE here signifies no more than for my sake, as MATTHEW 10:22; for your preaching, owning, and professing me and my gospel. And this they would not do, if they had any true knowledge of...
A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity Moreover, He adds to all this: "But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not Him that sent me."[241] Fragments f...
John 15:21 But G235 all G3956 things G5023 do G4160 (G5692) you G5213 for G1223 My G3450 names...
“Remember the word that I spoke to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his lord' (John 13:16). If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours as well....
3). THE DISCIPLES MUST NOT BE SURPRISED IF THEY ARE HATED BY THE WORLD (JOHN 15:18)....
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...
John 15:21. BUT ALL THESE THINGS WILL THEY DO UNTO YOU BECAUSE OF MY NAME, BECAUSE THEY KNOW NOT HIM THAT SENT ME. Their sufferings shall not only be like those of Jesus, but ‘because of His name,' be...
UNTO YOU (εις υμας). Like the dative υμιν (Textus Receptus) as in the papyri and modern Greek (Robertson, _Grammar_, p. 594).FOR MY NAME'S SAKE (δια το ονομα μου). See verse John 15:20. See this s...
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. _...
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...
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...
If I HAD NOT come. Opportunity _equals_ responsibility. Those who reject Christ will die in their sins, because they refuse to escape from them....
_If the world hate you_ KOSMOS: UNREGENERATE HUMANITY is here presented. I. AS GLOWING WITH HATE. 1. It was a hatred of goodness. To hate the mean, the selfish, the false, the dishonest, and moral...
_But all these things will they do unto you_ THE WORLD’S HATRED, AS CHRIST SAW IT I. THE WORLD’S IGNORANCE (John 15:21). “The world,” in Christ’s language, is the aggregate of Godless men. There is n...
_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 Corinthians 15:34; 1 Corinthians 2:8; 1 John 2:3; 1 John 2:4;...
For my name's sake [δ ι α τ ο ο ν ο μ α μ ο υ]. Literally, on account of my name. The name of Christ represented the faith, the attitude, the claims, and the aim of the disciples. His name was their c...