As a branch] i.e. as a useless branch.
Men (RV 'they') gather them] The angels gather the useless branches (i.e. persons who are not in Christ), and cast them into the fire (of future punishment in Hades or Gehenna), and they are burned (punished).
11, 12. The Saviour now resolves His commands into perfect self-forgetting love.
JOHN 15:6 avuta, The plural auvta,, attested by A B G Q L _al,_ appears to have been altered by copyists to the singular auvto, (a D L X D...
Verse John 15:6. _IF A MAN ABIDE NOT IN ME_] Our Lord in the plainest manner intimates that a person may as truly be united to him as the branch is to the tree that produces it, and yet be afterwards...
IF A MAN, ABIDE NOT IN ME - See John 15:4. If a man is not truly united to him by faith, and does not live with a continual sense of his dependence on him. This doubtless refers to those who are profe...
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...
IF. MAN ABIDE NOT IN ME, HE IS CAST FORTH AS. BRANCH, AND IS WITHERED. The lifeless, fruitless branches in the vineyard are lopped off and carried out, and wither and are burned. So, too, any one who...
"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)...
IF. MAN... NOT. Greek. _ean me tis._ App-118 and App-123. See "except" in John 15:4. It is no longer "you "or "ye" but "any one", speaking generally. IS CAST FORTH... IS WITHERED. (Both verbs are in t...
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...
_he is cast forth_ The verb is in a past tense; he is already cast forth by the very fact of not abiding in Christ. This consequence follows so inevitably that to state the one is to state the other....
ΤῸ should probably be inserted before ΠΥ͂Ρ with אAB: omitted as less usual; comp. Matthew 3:10; Matthew 7:19; Luke 3:9. 6. ἘΒΛΉΘΗ ἜΞΩ. _Is cast out_ of the vineyard. The vineyard is a further enlargem...
Ver 4. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can you, except you abide in me. 5. I am the vine, you are the branches: He that abide...
ΜΈΝΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΜΈΝΩ, _см._ John 15:4. _Conj._ с ΈΆΝ (G1437) выражает условие, ΈΒΛΉΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΒΆΛΛΩ (G906) бросать, ΈΞ (G1854) вон; здесь: прочь из виноградника (Morris), ΈΞΗ...
IF A MAN ABIDE NOT IN ME,— "To shew you further the necessity of abiding steadfastlyin this union and communion with me, and, ofcourse, in the experience of the power of my religion, producing the fru...
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...
If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. IF A MAN ABIDE NOT IN ME, HE IS CAST FORTH AS A BRANC...
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...
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...
IF A MAN ABIDE NOT IN ME, HE IS CAST FORTH AS A BRANCH... — The thought passes from the fruitful to the sterile branch, from the man who abideth to the man who will not abide in Christ. In the natural...
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...
ἐὰν μή τις μείνῃ, “if any one shall not have abided in me”. ἐβλήθη … ἐξηράνθη, the gnomic aorist, _cf._ 1 Peter 1:24; and see Burton, _M. and T._, 43, and Grotius: “Hi aoristi sine designatione tempor...
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...
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...
VER. 6. “ _If any one abides not in me, he is cast forth as the branch, and is withered; then they gather these branches_, _they throw them into the fire, and they burn._ ” It was in Palestine precis...
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...
_APART FROM THE VINE_ ‘Without Me ye can do nothing.’ John 15:5 These are the words of our Lord Himself about Himself. They might be more accurately translated thus—‘Apart from Me ye can do nothing...
6._If any one abide not in me. _He again lays before them the punishment of ingratitude, and, by doing so, excites and urges them to perseverance. It is indeed the gift of God, but the exhortation to...
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...
IF A MAN ABIDE NOT IN ME,.... Christ does not say, "if ye abide not in me"; he would not suppose this of his true disciples; Judas now being removed, to whom he may have some respect in this verse; th...
If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast _them_ into the fire, and they are burned. Ver. 6. _Cast them into the fire, and they are burned...
_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...
CAST FORTH AS A BRANCH; cut off and cast away as a useless branch. This separation of the unfruitful branches takes place in a measure only in this world. It will be completed at the judgment-day. Com...
The earnest application:...
IF A MAN ABIDE NOT IN ME, HE IS CAST FORTH AS A BRANCH AND IS WITHERED; AND MEN GATHER THEM AND CAST THEM INTO THE FIRE, AND THEY ARE BURNED....
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...
Our Lord yet pursueth the metaphor of the vine, the branches, and the husbandman: Look (saith he) its it is with a vine, when the time of pruning the vine cometh, the vine dresser cutteth off the frui...
John 15:6 If G3362 anyone G5100 not G3362 abide G3306 (G5661) in G1722 Me G1698 cast G906 ...
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...
“If a man does not remain dwelling in me he is thrown out as a branch and is withered, and they gather them and toss them into the fire, and they are burned up.” The branch whose connection with the V...
John 15:6. IF ANY ONE ABIDE NOT IN ME HE IS CAST FORTH AS THE BRANCH, AND IS WITHERED; AND THEY GATHER THEM, AND CAST THEM INTO THE FIRE, AND THEY BURN. ‘The branch' here is simply ‘the branch' of Joh...
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...
HE IS CAST FORTH (εβληθη εξω). Timeless or gnomic use of the first aorist passive indicative of βαλλω as the conclusion of a third-class condition (see also verses John 15:4; John 15:7 for the same...
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...
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._ 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, 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...
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,_ 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...
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...
IS THROWN OUT. Faith can be lost (Hebrews 6:4-6), and with it the ability to bear fruit. This whole parable shows us the relationship of Christ to: (1) _The Father -_ gardener and vine; (_2) Man -_ vi...
_If a man abide not in Me he is cast forth_ JESUS AND THE ONLY MEANS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS God is the author of righteousness, and Jesus is the Son of God, because He gives the method and secret by which...
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 15:6 The person who DOES NOT ABIDE IN ME does not have personal faith in Christ (see notes on v. 4; Ezekiel 15:1;...
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...
_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 2:19; 2 Peter 2:20; Ezekiel 15:3; Ezekiel 17:9; Ezekiel 19:12
He is cast forth [ε β λ η θ η ε ξ ω]. The aorist tense. Literally, was cast forth. The aorist, denoting a momentary act, indicates that it was cast forth at the moment it ceased to abide in the vine....
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,...
If any one abide not in me — By living faith; not by Church communion only. He may thus abide in Christ, and be withered all the time, and cast into the fire at last. He is cast out — Of the vineyard,...
Here our holy Lord discovers the sad and deplorable condition of such professors, who pretending relation to Christ, do yet bring forth no fruit unto him: he calls them withered branches, fit only for...