John 15:3

Now ye are clean Already are ye clean. -Ye" is emphatic; many more will be made clean hereafter.

through the word Better, on account of the word. This is a frequent error in our version, διά with the accusative being translated as if it had the genitive. Comp. Matthew 15:3; Matthew 15:6, where - byyour tradition" should be - for the sake ofyour tradition." -The word" (John 16:23) here means the whole teaching of Christ, not any particular utterance; but there may be special reference to the present discourses, through which Peter, Thomas, Philip, and Judas Lebbaeus have been cleansed from self-confidence and ignorance.