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John 15:20
Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept My saying, they will keep yours also.
Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept My saying, they will keep yours also.
Verse John 15:20. _IF THEY HAVE KEPT MY SAYING_] Or, _doctrine_. Whosoever acknowledges _me_ for _the Christ_ will acknowledge _you_ for my _ministers_. Some translate the passage thus: _If they hav...
REMEMBER THE WORD THAT I SAID ... - At their first appointment to the apostolic office. See Matthew 10:24....
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...
REMEMBER THE WORD,... THE SERVANT IS NOT GREATER THAN HIS LORD. For this admonition to which the Lord refers see John 13:16; Matthew 10:24; Luke 6:40. The servants who represent the Master, show his s...
THE VINE AND THE BRANCHES (John 15:1-10)...
"If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have pi...
REMEMBER. Referring to John 13:16. HAVE PERSECUTED. persecuted (Aor.) Greek. _dioko. to_ pursue (opposite to _pheugo,_ to flee), here with malignant intent. It is translated thirty-one times "persecut...
The Hatred of the World to both Him and them In strong contrast to the love and union between Christ and His disciples and among the disciples themselves is the hatred of the world to Him and them. H...
_Remember_ See note on John 13:16: of the passages noticed there Matthew 10:24 is similar in meaning to this. Christ may here be alluding to the occasion recorded in Matthew 10:24. On the blessedness...
ΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΎΕΤΕ. See note on John 13:16 : of the passages noticed there Matthew 10:24 is similar in meaning to this. Christ may here be alluding to the occasion recorded in Matthew 10:24. On the blessedne...
THE HATRED OR THE WORLD TO BOTH HIM AND THEM In strong contrast to the love and union between Christ and His disciples and among the disciples themselves is the hatred of the world to Him and them. He...
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...
ΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΎΕΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΎΩ (G3421) помнить, в сопровождении _gen. praes._ предполагает, что они и впредь должны помнить эти слова, ΈΔΊΩΞΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΔΙΏΚΩ (G1377) преслед...
DISCOURSE: 1698 CONSOLATION TO THE PERSECUTED John 15:18. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are...
IF THEY HAVE KEPT MY SAYING,— "Had they received the truth in the love of it from me, no doubt but they would do the same from you....
PERSEVERING UNION OF THE PERSECUTED _Text 15:18-27_ 18 If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before it hated you. 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but be...
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...
Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. R...
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...
15:20 bondman (f-10) _ Doulos_ . see Note, Matthew 10:24 ....
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...
THE WORLD'S HATRED] cp. the similar predictions, Matthew 10:16; Matthew 24:9; Luke 21:12; Luke 21:16 cp. also...
THE WORD] see Matthew 10:24. The reference is not to John 13:16....
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...
REMEMBER THE WORD THAT I SAID UNTO YOU. — Comp. John 13:16, where the saying is used in a different sense; and Matthew 10:24, where it is used in the same connection in which we find it here. IF THEY...
XIV. _ THE SPIRIT CHRIST'S WITNESS._ "If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated Me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the w...
μνημονεύετε τοῦ λόγου … αὐτοῦ. μνημονεύετε (from μνήμων, mindful), “be mindful of,” sometimes used pregnantly, as in 1 Thessalonians 1:3; Galatians 2:10; “the words which I said to you,” _viz._, in Jo...
_The relation of the disciples to the world_....
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...
Here Christ predicts, that many will be deaf to the words of his Church, as they have neglected to attend to his precepts....
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...
“ _If the world hates you, know that I have been the object of its hatred before you._ 19. _If you were of the world, the world would love what belongs to it; but because you are not of the world and...
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...
20._Remember the word. _It might also be read in the indicative mood, _You remember the word_, and the meaning is not very different; but I think that it is more suitable to read it in the imperative...
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...
REMEMBER THE WORD THAT I SAID UNTO YOU,.... For their further consolation under the hatred of the world, he puts them in mind of a saying of his, which he had lately used, John 13:16; to teach them hu...
Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. Ver...
_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...
THE SERVANT-HIS LORD; MATTHEW 10:24-25....
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...
18-25 How little do many persons think, that in opposing the doctrine of Christ as our Prophet, Priest, and King, they prove themselves ignorant of the one living and true God, whom they profess to w...
THE WORD THAT I SAID UNTO YOU, 1 THESSALONIANS 13:16, to press you to humility, and a mutual serving of one another in love; and which I spake to you, MATTHEW 10:24, when I first sent you out; and I s...
A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity And, "When He, the Advocate, shall come, whom I shall send unto you from my Father, the Spirit of truth who proceedeth from my Father."[248] Constitutio...
John 15:20 Remember G3421 (G5720) word G3056 that G3739 I G1473 said G2036 (G5627) you G5213 servant...
3). THE DISCIPLES MUST NOT BE SURPRISED IF THEY ARE HATED BY THE WORLD (JOHN 15:18)....
“Remember the word that I spoke to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his lord' (John 13:16). If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours as well....
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 15:20. REMEMBER THE WORD THAT I SAID UNTO YOU, A SERVANT IS NOT GREATER THAN HIS LORD: IF THEY PERSECUTED ME, THEY WILL PERSECUTE YOU ALSO; IF THEY KEPT MY WORD, THEY WILL KEEP YOURS ALSO. The wo...
REMEMBER (μνημονευετε). Present active imperative of μνημονευω, old verb from μνημων, in John again in John 16:4; John 16:21. See John 13:16 for this word.IF THEY PERSECUTED ME (ε εμε εδιωξαν). Co...
John 15:20 _(with Matthew 10:24; Luke 6:40; John 13:19)_ I. "The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord," etc. This saying
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...
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...
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...
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...
BECAUSE YOU ARE MINE. Compare Revelation 1:9. [_For my name's sake_ means _because you are mine._ A _Christian_ is one who has been _bought far God by Christ._]...
_If the world hate you_ KOSMOS: UNREGENERATE HUMANITY is here presented. I. AS GLOWING WITH HATE. 1. It was a hatred of goodness. To hate the mean, the selfish, the false, the dishonest, and moral...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 15:18. IF THE WORLD HATE YOU, ETC.—He now directs the attention of the disciples to their relation toward the world. Christ _loves_ His disciples, the world _hat...
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 Samuel 8:7; 1 Thessalonians 2:15; Acts 4:27; Acts 7:52; Ezekiel 3:7
Persecuted [ε δ ι ω ξ α ν]. The verb means originally to put to flight; thence to run swiftly in order to overtake or attain, as the goal or the competitor in the race. Thus Sophocles (" Electra, "738...
John 13:16; Matthew 10:24; Luke 6:40....