Every branch in me; professed disciple.
That beareth not fruit; does not live a holy life.
Purgeth it; in the original, cleanseth it; that is, by pruning, which here represents all the discipline to which Christ subjects his disciples.
Verse John 15:2. _EVERY BRANCH IN ME_] I stand in the same relation to my followers, and they to me, as the vine to the branches, and the branches to the vine. _HE TAKETH AWAY_] As the vine-dresser...
EVERY BRANCH IN ME - Everyone that is a true follower of me, that is united to me by faith, and that truly derives grace and strength from me, as the branch does from the vine. The word “branch” inclu...
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...
EVERY BRANCH IN ME THAT BEARETH NOT FRUIT HE TAKETH AWAY. As the husbandman cuts off the unfruitful branches of the vine, so the Father severs the unfruitful branches from his Son. Judas, an unfruitfu...
THE VINE AND THE BRANCHES (John 15:1-10)...
"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...
BRANCH. Greek. _klema._ Only here, and verses: John 15:4; John 15:5; John 15:6. IN. Greek _en._ App-104. not. Greek. _me._ App-106. TAKETH AWAY. raiseth. Greek. _airo._ Occurs 102 times, and translat...
_Every branch_ The word for -branch" in these six verses occurs here only in N.T., and in classical Greek is specially used of the vine. The word used in the other Gospels (Matthew 13:32; Matthew 21:8...
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...
ΚΛΗ͂ΜΑ. Occurs here only (John 15:2-6) in N.T. In classical Greek it is specially used of the vine. Κλάδος (Matthew 13:32; Matthew 21:8; Matthew 24:3
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...
ΚΛΉΜΑ (G2814) ветвь, побег виноградной лозы (Morris). ΦΈΡΟΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΦΈΡΩ (G5342) нести, приносить, ΑΊΡΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΑΊΡΩ (G142) поднимать, убирать. Легкое прореживание дела...
DISCOURSE: 1690 CHRISTIANS BRANCHES OF THE TRUE VINE John 15:1. _I am the vine, and my Father is the husband-man. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beare...
EVERY BRANCH IN ME, &C.— "Though by the outward profession of my religion you become members of the visible church of God, you must never forget, that this, of itself, is not sufficient to constitute...
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...
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 fruit. EVERY BRANCH IN ME THAT BEARETH NOT FRUIT HE TAKETH...
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...
EVERY BRANCH] refers primarily to individual Christians; yet what is said applies also to Churches (Revelation 2:5; Revelation 3:16). TAKETH AWAY] yet not finally till the Last Judgment. PURGETH] RV '...
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...
EVERY BRANCH IN ME THAT BEARETH NOT FRUIT HE TAKETH AWAY. — The two chief duties of the vine-dresser, cutting off all fruitless tendrils, and cleansing those that bear fruit, supply illustrations of t...
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...
The function of the vinedresser is at once described: πᾶν κλῆμα … φέρῃ. κλῆμα, or more fully as in Xen., _Oecon._, xix. 8, κλῆμα ἀμπέλου, is the shoot of the vine which is annually put forth. It is fr...
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...
He here shews, that the virtuous themselves stand in need of the help of the husbandman; therefore the Almighty sends them tribulations, and temptations, that they may be cleansed, and rendered firm,...
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...
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...
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...
“ _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. _...
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...
2._Every branch in me that beareth not fruit _As some men corrupt the grace of God, others suppress it maliciously, and others choke it by carelessness, Christ intends by these words to awaken anxious...
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...
EVERY BRANCH IN ME THAT BEARETH NOT FRUIT,.... There are two sorts of branches in Christ the vine; the one sort are such who have only an historical faith in him, believe but for a time, and are remov...
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 fruit. Ver. 2. _Every branch in me_] That thinks himself t...
_Every branch in me_ True believers, who by faith have an interest in, and union with Christ, are the branches of the vine here spoken of. Though, as to the place of their abode, their religious senti...
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 FRUIT....
CHRIST THE TRUE VINE. The Husbandman, the Vine, and the branches:...
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...
And concerning his Father's care, he tells us, that as the good vine dresser cutteth off those branches in the vine which bring forth no fruit, so his Father will take away such branches in him as bri...
Five Books in Reply to Marcion Off-broken boughs![52]...
John 15:2 Every G3956 branch G2814 in G1722 Me G1698 that G846 does G5342 not G3361 bear G5342 ...
“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...
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 15:2. EVERY BRANCH IN ME WHICH BEARETH NOT FRUIT, HE TAKETH IT AWAY; AND ALL THAT WHICH BEARETH FRUIT, HE CLEANSETH IT, THAT IT MAY BEAR MORE FRUIT. Two parts of the husband man's operations with...
BRANCH (κλημα). Old word from κλαω, to break, common in LXX for offshoots of the vine, in N.T. only here (verses John 15:2-6), elsewhere in N.T. κλαδος (Mark 4:32, etc.), also from κλαω, both words...
PURGETH THREE CONDITIONS OF THE FRUITFUL LIFE: Cleansing, (John 15:2); (John 15:3). (_ See Scofield) - (John 13:10), _ abiding, ( See Scofield) - ...
John 15:2 Good Works I. All that Christ did on the earth and said and suffered, and all that He now is in heaven, and all that He says in heaven, and all for which He has appointed and instituted His...
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,_ 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...
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...
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...
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...
HE BREAKS OFF EVERY BRANCH IN ME. Individual believers are the branches (see John 15:7). Vines have two kinds of branches: the fruitless, which the gardener cuts off and discards; the fruitful, which...
_Every branch in Me that beareth not fruit_ BELIEVERS BRANCHES IN THE TRUE VINE I. WHAT IS IMPLIED IN BEING A BRANCH IN CHRIST AND WHO ARE PROPERLY BRANCHES IN HIM. 1. In order to be such, we must b...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 15:2 DOES NOT BEAR FRUIT seems to indicate that the person is not a true believer (see vv. John 15:6,...
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 ...
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...
_Every branch_ : Christ says nothing about the Vine itself, but only speaks of the branches, because Christ the Vine is self-sufficing. But the disciples have need of much help and culture from God. S...
_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 Corinthians 13:1; 1 John 2:19; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; 1 Thessalonians 5:24;...
Branch [κ λ η μ α]. Occurring only in this chapter. Both this and kladov, branch (see on Matthew 24:32; Mark 11:8) are derived from klaw, to break. The word emphasizes the ideas of tenderness and flex...
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,...
Every one that beareth fruit, he purifieth — by obeying the truth, 1 Peter 1:22; and by inward or outward sufferings, Hebrews 12:10. So purity and fruitfulness help each other. That it may bear more f...