Verse John 15:3. _NOW YE ARE CLEAN_] καθαροι εστε, _Ye are pruned_. As our Lord has not changed the metaphor, it would be wrong to change the expression. _THROUGH THE WORD_] δια τον λογος, _Through...
NOW YE ARE CLEAN - Still keeping up the figure καθαροί katharoi. It does not mean that they were perfect, but that they had been under a process of purifying by his instructions all the time he had b...
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...
NOW YE ARE CLEAN THROUGH THE WORD WHICH. HAVE SPOKEN UNTO YOU. The spoken word is the instrument appointed by God for the cleansing of the soul. He who hears the word, believes it, receives it into hi...
"I am the real vine and my Father is the vine-dresser. He destroys every branch in me which does not bear fruit; and he cleanses every branch which does bear fruit, so that it may bear more fruit. You...
THE VINE AND THE BRANCHES (John 15:1-10)...
NOW. Already. clean. Greek. _katharos. Compare_ John 13:10; John 13:11, the only other occurance in John, and the verb _kathairo_ in John 15:2. THROUGH. on account of. App-104 WORD. Greek. _logos._ S...
The Union of the Disciples with Christ The Allegory of the Vine The allegory of the Vine is similar in kind to that of the Door and of the Good Shepherd in chap. 10 (see introductory note there): th...
_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 w...
ἬΔΗ ὙΜΕΙ͂Σ Κ. ALREADY _are ye clean_ BECAUSE _of the word_. Distinguish διά with the accusative from διά with the genitive. A.V. confounds the two here and Matthew 15:3; Matthew 15:6. Ὁ λόγος is the w...
VER 1. I AM THE TRUE VINE, AND MY FATHER IS THE HUSBANDMAN. 2. EVERY BRANCH IN ME THAT BEARS NOT FRUIT HE TAKES AWAY: AND EVERY BRANCH THAT BEARS FRUIT, HE PURGES IT, THAT IT MAY BRING FORTH MORE FRUI...
NOW YE ARE CLEAN, &C.— "The doctrine that I have preached to you, by the power of divine grace, has inspired you with holy desires; has invigorated you with good resolutions; and, in a measure, has cl...
VITAL UNION OF VINE AND BRANCHES _Text 15:1-11_ 1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh _it_ away: and every branch that bear...
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 15:1-6 The following is an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— The persons addressed in John 15 were the eleven apostles. It was not to unsaved p...
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. NOW YE ARE CLEAN THROUGH THE WORD, [ Eedee (G2235) humeis (G5210) katharoi (G2513) este ...
28 In the East they do not say, as we do, "I am going", but rather "I am going and returning" when spealctng of an ordinary journey. So the Lord assures them that He was not about to leave them perman...
THROUGH THE WORD] The 'word' is the whole training of the Twelve, including the admonitions and severe rebukes with which He strove to correct their faults, and make them 'clean,' i.e. 'pruned,' and i...
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...
NOW YE ARE CLEAN. — Better, _Already are ye clean._ The pronoun is emphatic. “Already are ye, as distinct from others who will become clean in the future.” (Comp. Note on John 13:10.) THROUGH THE WORD...
John 15:1 XII. _ THE VINE AND THE BRANCHES._ "Arise, let us go hence. I am the true Vine, and My Father is the Husbandman. Every branch in Me that beareth not fruit, He taketh it away: and every bra...
ἤδη ὑμεῖς καθαροί ἐστε : “Already ye are clean”. καθαροί here means “in a condition fit to bear fruit”; in John 13:10-11, it is suggested by the feet-washing, and means “free from inward stain”. It is...
THE CONDITION OF FRUITFULNESS John 15:1-9 The vine is not able to do its work in the world without its branches; they stretch far from the root, to bear its strength and sweetness to those who stand...
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...
See John xiii. 10....
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...
“ _I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser._ 2. _Every branch in me which bears not fruit, he takes away; and every branch which bears fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit._ 3. _...
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...
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...
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. (2) Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more frui...
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...
3._You are already clean, on account of the word. _He reminds them that they have _already _experienced in themselves what he had said; that they have been planted in him, and have also been _cleansed...
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...
NOW YE ARE CLEAN THROUGH THE WORD WHICH I HAVE SPOKEN UNTO YOU.. These words being inserted in the discourse concerning the vine and branches, and the pruning and purging them to make them fruitful, a...
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Ver. 3. _Through the word, &c._] Which is the pruning knife, to lop off our luxuriances, rotten boughs, raw grapes, to pare off our gum...
_Now ye are clean_ All of you, to whom I now speak, are made clean from the guilt and power of sin through the word which I have spoken unto you, whose sanctifying influence has operated on your heart...
NOW YE ARE CLEAN; pruned, and thus spiritually purified and made fruitful. The word "clean" is used with reference to the word "purgeth" or cleanseth, in verse John 15:2....
CHRIST THE TRUE VINE. The Husbandman, the Vine, and the branches:...
NOW YE ARE CLEAN THROUGH THE WORD WHICH I HAVE SPOKEN UNTO YOU....
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...
1-8 Jesus Christ is the Vine, the true Vine. The union of the human and Divine natures, and the fulness of the Spirit that is in him, resemble the root of the vine made fruitful by the moisture from...
Now that the traitor is gone out from you, ye are all clean; not by any works which you do, much less upon the account of any legal and ceremonial rites and purifyings; but through my word, your belie...
Origen Commentary on John Book X And this temple must be destroyed by those who plot against the Word of God, and after its destruction be raised again on that third day which we discussed above; when...
John 15:3 You G5210 are G2075 (G5748) already G2235 clean G2513 because G1223 word G3056 which G3739 spoken...
“Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away. And every branch that does bear fruit, he cleanses it that it may produce more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word which I hav...
1). JESUS IS THE NEW ISRAEL, WHICH IS TO ACT AS THE NEW WITNESS FOR GOD IN THE WORLD. IF WE WOULD ENJOY HIS BLESSING WE MUST DO SO BY LIVING CONTINUALLY IN HIM IN TRUST AND OBEDIENCE AS BRANCHES REMAI...
John 15:3. ALREADY ARE YE CLEAN BECAUSE OF THE WORD WHICH I HAVE SPOKEN UNTO YOU. On ‘word,' not ‘words,' see on chap. John 14:24. The ‘ye' is emphatic. _They_ were pruned, _they_ were ‘clean;' and th...
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...
ALREADY YE ARE CLEAN (ηδη υμεις καθαρο εστε). Potentially cleansed (Westcott) as in John 13:10 which see and John 17:19....
John 15:1. _I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman._ If you want to know where the true Church is, Christ here tells you: «I am the true vine.» All who are in Christ are in the true Chur...
John 15:1. _I am the true vine,_ Now we know where to find the true Church. It is to be found only in Christ and in those who are joined to him in mystical but real union: «I am the true vine,» John...
On the way from the supper table to the garden of Gethsemane, or while still lingering in the upper room, our Lord spoke this wondrous parable. John 15:1. _I am the true vine,-_ All other vines are...
John 15:1. _I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman._ All other vines were but types and shadows; Christ is the substance; God's ideal vine; «the true vine.» Israel was a vine; the figure...
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. _...
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...
YOU HAVE BEEN MADE CLEAN ALREADY. The message [all Jesus had taught them] had made them clean, given them spiritual life, and prepared them to _bear fruit._ [The message tells us how to reach out to s...
_Now are ye clean through the Word which I have spoken unto you_ FURTHER CLEANSING NECESSARY Now are ye clean through the Word, and yet needing to be cleansed. We have a hint here of the mystery of...
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 ...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 15:3 CLEAN. See John 13:10. ⇐...
_Now ye are clean through the word_, &c. This is the pruning-hook with which God the Father _καθαίζει_, _i.e._, _purges_ and _cleanses_ His apostles, that they may be _καθαζὸι_, _i.e._, _pure_ and _c...
1-26 CHAPTER 15 VER. 1. _I am the true Vine_. The Greek has a double art. _ή άμπελος ή α̉ληθινὴ_, _the vine the true_. The Syriac is, _I am that vine of truth_. Christ here sets forth the parable of...
_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 Peter 1:22; Ephesians 5:26; John 13:10; John 17:17...
Clean [κ α θ α ι ρ ε ι]. Etymologically akin to kaqairei, purgeth. The Rev. indicates this by rendering kaqairei, cleanseth....
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,...
Ye are clean — All of you, to whom I now speak, are purged from the guilt and power of sin; by the word — Which, applied by the Spirit, is the grand instrument of purifying the soul....
Our Saviour having in the former verses distinguished his disciples into two sorts; some that were members of his body the church, and branches of him the true vine, by outward shew and visible profes...