Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
John 15:17
I command you to abide in Me, that by so doing you may have the power to love one another.'
I command you to abide in Me, that by so doing you may have the power to love one another.'
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...
THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD (JOHN 15:17-27) 17. These things. command you that ye love one another. "These things" are all the precepts the Lord had spoken since the interview began with chapter XIII. I...
THE VINE AND THE BRANCHES (John 15:1-10)...
"I have spoken these things to you that my joy might be in you, and that your joy might be complete. This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you. No one has greater love tha...
_These things I command you_, &c. More literally, _These things I am commanding you, in order that ye may love one another_. -These things" does not refer to -that ye love one another," but to what ha...
17. ΤΑΥ͂ΤΑ. The verse sums up what precedes and prepares for a new departure (comp. John 15:11; John 14:25; John 16:1; John 16:25;...
THE UNION OF THE DISCIPLES WITH ONE ANOTHER IN CHRIST...
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...
ΤΑΎΤΑ (G3778) _n. pl._ это. Означает, что все заповеди Иисуса призваны преподать им урок взаимной любви (SM; DJG, 13536)....
THESE THINGS I COMMAND YOU,— 'Εντελλομαι υμιν, _I inculcate upon you._"I haveexplained to you the high nature and vast importance of your office, as my apostles; and I have put you in mind of my lovin...
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...
FRANK UNION OF FRIENDS _Text 15:12-17_ 12 This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his f...
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...
These things I command you, that ye love one another. THESE THINGS I COMMAND YOU, THAT YE LOVE ONE ANOTHER. Our Lord repeats here what He had said in , but He recurs to it here in order to give it...
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...
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...
THESE THINGS I COMMAND YOU — _i.e.,_ the things of which He has spoken from John 15:1 onwards, and especially from John 15:12. After speaking them He comes back to the purpose from which this section...
XIII. _ NOT SERVANTS, BUT FRIENDS._ "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are My friends, if ye do the things which I command you. No longer do I call y...
_The disciples are urged to fulfil Christ's purposes in the world, and are assured that if they abide in the love of Christ they will receive all they need for fruit-bearing_....
ταῦτα ἐντέλλομαι ὑμῖν. “These things” which I have now spoken “I enjoin upon you,” ἵνα ἀγαπᾶτε ἀλλήλους, “in order that ye may love one another”....
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...
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...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 12-17. 1. The statement of John 15:13 is, of course, to be interpreted in view of the subject which is occupying the thought of Jesus. The love of enemie...
VER. 17. “ _I give you these precepts, that you may love one another._ ” The pronoun ταῦτα cannot refer to the ἵνα which follows: “I command you _this, that_ you love one another.” For the plural prov...
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...
17._These things I command you. _This too, was appropriately added, that the Apostles might know that mutual love among ministers is demanded above all things, that they may be employed, with one acco...
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...
THESE THINGS I COMMAND YOU,.... The doctrines which Christ spake, as one having authority, concerning the vine and branches; his love to his disciples, in laying down his life for them, and in account...
These things I command you, that ye love one another. Ver. 17. _That ye love one another_] That ye hold together, because the world will hate you. A spirit of perversities made way for the ruin of Eg...
_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...
THESE THINGS I COMMAND YOU THAT YE LOVE ONE ANOTHER....
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...
9-17 Those whom God loves as a Father, may despise the hatred of all the world. As the Father loved Christ, who was most worthy, so he loved his disciples, who were unworthy. All that love the Saviou...
This is but the repetition of the same precept we before had; unless we will understand it as a more special charge upon them, considered as ministers of the gospel; the mutual love of ministers being...
John 15:17 things G5023 command G1781 (G5736) you G5213 that G2443 love G25 (G5725) another G240...
“These things I command you in order that you may love one another”. ‘In order that you may love one another.' One purpose of His commands, included in the command that we be fruitful, is that we lov...
2). AS THE NEW ISRAEL THE DISCIPLES ARE TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER (JOHN 15:12). The fruit required of the branches of the vine is now clearly expressed. As branches of the true Vine they are to love one ano...
John 15:17. THESE THINGS I COMMAND YOU, THAT YE MAY LOVE ONE ANOTHER. A verse characteristic of the structure of this Gospel, forming like chap. John 5:30 at once a summary (to a large extent) of what...
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...
THAT YE MAY LOVE ONE ANOTHER (ινα αγαπατε αλληλους). Repetition of John 13:34; John 15:12. This very night the disciples had been guilty of jealousy and wrangling (Luke 22:24;...
John 15:17 _(with 1 Peter 2:17; Hebrews 13:1)_ I. Look at the words in which the message is delivered: "That ye love one another," that ye "love the brotherhood," that this "brotherly love continue....
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. _...
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...
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...
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...
LOVE ONE ANOTHER. Love is the _mortar_ which builds _living stones_ into the _church of Christ!_...
_This is My commandment, that ye love one another_ THE GREAT COMMANDMENT OF CHRIST I. THE LOVE OF CHRIST. Remember 1. How free it was. We did not merit it, ask for it, nor even desire it. And here i...
_Ye are My friends if ye do whatsoever I command you_ CHRIST’S FRIENDS Notice I. WHAT CHRIST’S FRIENDS DO FOR HIM (John 15:16). In the former verse, “friends” means chiefly those whom He loved. Her...
_These things I command you that ye love one another (see _John 15:12_)_ LOVE IN THE CHRISTIAN SYSTEM The work is all love: love in its hidden source the love of the Father; in its first manifestati...
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 ...
_These things I command you_, &c. He says _these things_ in the plural to signify that there were indeed many particular precepts commanded by Him, but that all of them were included in the one common...
_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 John 3:14; 1 Peter 2:17; John 15:12...
That [ι ν α]. All my teachings are to the end that you should love one another....
Observe here, 1. With what frequency and importunity our Lord inculcates and presses the duty of mutual love upon his disciples: I COMMAND YOU TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER. It denotes the great importance of...