Chapter 15:
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John 15
Verse 1. I am the true vine - So the true bread, chap. vi, 32; that is, the
most excellent.
Verse
2. Every one that beareth fruit, he purifieth - by obeying the truth,
1 Pet. i, 22; and by inward or outward sufferings, Heb. xii, 10, 11.
So purity and fruitfulness help each other. That it may bear more
fruit - For this is one of the noblest rewards God can bestow on
former acts of obedience, to make us yet more holy, and fit for
farther and more eminent service.
Verse
3. 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.
Verse
4. Abide in me - Ye who are now pure by living faith, producing
all holiness; by which alone ye can be in me.
Verse
5. I am the vine, ye are the branches - Our Lord in this whole
passage speaks of no branches but such as are, or at least were
once, united to him by living faith.
Verse
6. 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, the invisible Church. Therefore he was in it once.
Verse
7. If ye abide in me, ye shall ask - Prayers themselves are a fruit
of faith, and they produce more fruit.
Verse
8. So shall ye be my disciples - Worthy of the name. To be a
disciple of Christ is both the foundation and height of Christianity.
Verse
9. Abide ye in my love - Keep your place in my affection. See that
ye do not forfeit that invaluable blessing. How needless a caution,
if it were impossible for them not to abide therein?
Verse
10. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love - On
these terms, and no other, ye shall remain the objects of my
special affection.
Verse
11. That my joy might remain in you - The same joy which I feel
in loving the Father, and keeping his commandments.
Verse
12. Your joy will be full, if ye so love one another.
Verse
13. Greater love - To his friends. He here speaks of them only.
Verse
14. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you - On
this condition, not otherwise. A thunderbolt for Antinomianism!
Who then dares assert that God's love does not at all depend on
man's works?
Verse
15. All things - Which might be of service to you.
Verse
16. Ye - My apostles, have not chosen me, but I have chosen you -
As clearly appears from the sacred history: and appointed you,
that ye may go and bear fruit - I have chosen and appointed you
for this end, that ye may go and convert sinners: and that your
fruit may remain - That the fruit of your labours may remain to
the end of the world; yea, to eternity; that whatsoever ye shall ask
- The consequence of your going and bearing fruit will be, that all
your prayers will be heard.
Verse
19. Because ye are not of the world, therefore the world hateth
you - Because your maxims, tempers, actions, are quite opposite
to theirs. For the very same reason must the world in all ages hate
those who are not of the world.
Verse
20. John xiii, 16; Matt. x, 24; Luke vi, 40.
Verse
21. All these things will they do to you, because they know not
him that sent me - And in all ages and nations they who know not
God will, for this cause, hate and persecute those that do.
Verse
22. They had not had sin - Not in this respect.
Verse
23. He that hateth me - As every unbeliever doth, For as the love
of God is inseparable from faith, so is the hatred of God from
unbelief.
Verse
25. Psalm lxix, 4.
Verse
26. When the Comforter is come, whom I will send from the
Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he
shall testify of me - The Spirit's coming, and being sent by our
Lord from the Father, to testify of him, are personal characters,
and plainly distinguish him from the Father and the Son; and his
title as the Spirit of truth, together with his proceeding from the
Father, can agree to none but a Divine person. And that he
proceeds from the Son, as well as from the Father, may be fairly
argued from his being called the Spirit of Christ, 1 Pet. i, 11; and
from his being here said to be sent by Christ from the Father, as
well as sent by the Father in his name.
Chapter 15:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Johnson
| Lightfoot
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| McGarvey Pendleton
| McGee
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Luke Acts
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