Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 14:15
If ye love me, keep my commandments — Immediately after faith he exhorts to love and good works.
If ye love me, keep my commandments — Immediately after faith he exhorts to love and good works.
JOHN 14:15 thrh,sete {C} A majority of the Committee preferred the future tense thrh,sete, read by B L Y 1010 1071 1195* 2148 _al_ (and perhaps supported indirectly by witnesses that read the aorist...
Verse John 14:15. _IF YE LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS._] Do not be afflicted at the thought of my being separated from you: the most solid proof ye can give of your attachment to and affection for me...
IF YE LOVE ME - Do not show your love by grief at my departure merely; or by profession, but by obedience. KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS - This is the only proper evidence of love to Jesus, for mere profession...
CHAPTER 14 1. Let not Your Heart be Troubled! (John 14:1 .) 2. I Am in the Father and the Father in Me. (John 14:8 .) 3. The Other Comforter Promised. (John 14:15 .) 4. I Go unto the Father. ...
John 14:1 takes up the thoughts of the previous paragraph, not of the last verse. The thoughts of separation and treachery had led to perplexity, if not despair. Jesus bids them trust God and Himself....
THE ADVOCATE PROMISED (JOHN 14:15-31) 15. If ye love me keep my commandments. This is not. command, but. declaration that if his disciples love him they will obey him. See Revised Version. Obedience...
THE PROMISE OF GLORY (John 14:1-3)...
"If you love me, keep my commandments; and I will ask the Father and he will give you another helper to be with you for ever, I mean the Spirit of Truth. The world cannot receive him, because it does...
LOVE. Greek. _agapao._ App-135., and see p. 1511. keep. Most of the texts read, "ye will keep"....
_If ye love me_ The connexion with what precedes is again not quite clear. Some would see it in the condition -in My name," which includes willing obedience to His commands. Perhaps it is rather to be...
ἘᾺΝ�. The connexion with what precedes is again not quite clear. Some would see it in the condition ‘in My name,’ which includes willing obedience to His commands. Perhaps it is rather to be referred...
VER 1A. 15. IF YOU LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS. 16. AND I WILL PRAY THE FATHER, AND HE SHALL GIVE YOU ANOTHER COMFORTER, THAT HE MAY ABIDE WITH YOU FOR EVER; 17. EVEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH; WHOM THE W...
_LOVE LEADS TO OBEDIENCE -- JOHN 14:15-24:_ Now we come to recognize the path by which we enjoy God's blessings. Jesus said, "If you love me, you will do as I command you." "He that hath my commandmen...
ΆΓΑΠΆΤΕ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΆΓΑΠΆΩ (G25) любить. _Conj._ в _conj._ 3 типа, в котором говорящий рассматривает условие как возможное. ΤΗΡΉΣΕΤΕ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΤΗΡΈΩ (G5083) охранять, хранить, в...
DISCOURSE: 1687 THE GIFT OF THE SPIRIT AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO OBEDIENCE John 14:15. If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may a...
IF YE LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS.— The term of _loving God,_ is frequently taken from that expression of love which consists in doing such things as are esteemed grateful or beneficial to the objec...
GOING TO SEND THE STRENGTHENER AND REVEALER _Text 14:15-24_ 15 If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 14:12-20 Below is an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— At first reading there does not appear to be much direct connection between the several...
If ye love me, keep my commandments. IF YE LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS. Christ's commandments are neither substituted in place of God's commandments in the moral law, nor are they something to be...
34 As our Lord is about to leave His beloved disciples, He compresses His ministry into one new precept-love. That was to be their law and their life and make them a light in the world. This should ch...
THE COMFORTER 1-31. The mansions in heaven. The mission of the Comforter. This great discourse, which is not easily susceptible of formal subdivision, deals with five main subjects: (1) the heavenly...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 14 JESUS IS THE WAY TO GOD THE *FATHER 14:1-14 V1 Jesus said to his *disciples, ‘Do not worry! Trust God. And trust me,...
IF YE LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS. — Comp. Notes on John 14:17; John 13:34; John 15:10. The connection here is through the condition “in My name,” which includes willing obedience to His commands. T...
VIII. _ JESUS ANNOUNCES HIS DEPARTURE._ "When therefore he was gone out, Jesus saith, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in Him; and God shall glorify Him in Himself, and straightw...
X. _ THE FATHER SEEN IN CHRIST._ "Philip saith unto Him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so longtime with you, and dost thou not know Me, Philip? he th...
_The second encouragement: the promise of another Paraclete_....
ἐὰν … τηρήσατε. The fulfilment of the promise He is about to give depends upon their condition of heart and life. This therefore He announces as the preamble to the promise. On their side there would...
to John 14:31 comprise one continuous conversation, introduced by Jesus' announcement (John 13:31-35) of His speedy departure....
THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH John 14:12-24 There is no adequate translation for the word _Paraclete._ It may be rendered “interpreter,” “comforter,” “advocate,” but no one word suffices. The Greek means “one...
There is no real break between the end of chapter 13 and beginning of chapter 14. Therefore continuing, while now including all the disciples, He charged them not to let their heart be troubled. He th...
(6) If ye love me, keep my commandments. (6) He loves Christ rightly who obeys his commandment: and because obedience to Christ is accompanied with an infinite type and amount of miseries, although h...
Instead of afflicting yourselves at our separation, and my going to the Father, you ought, if you truly love me, to testify your affection, by a faithful observance of my commandments. Behold, this is...
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 you love me, keep my commandments._ 16. _And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another support, that he may abide with you eternally_, 17. _the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 15-24. 1. The meaning of the word παράκλητος has been much discussed. It is evidently founded upon the verb παρακαλεῖν as a verbal adjective, and the fund...
Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. (9) Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me, hath se...
The point at which we have arrived gives me an opportunity of saying a little on the beginning of this chapter, and the end of the last; for it is well known that many men, and, I am sorry to add, not...
_THE MISSION OF THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH_ ‘If ye love Me, ye will keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may be with you for ever, even the Spir...
15._If you love me. _The _love _with which the disciples _loved _Christ was true and sincere, and yet there was some superstition mixed with it, as is frequently the case with ourselves; for it was ve...
The Lord now begins to discourse with them in view of His departure. He was going where they could not come. To human sight they would be left alone upon the earth. It is to the sense of this apparent...
IF YE LOVE ME,.... Not that Christ doubted of the love of his disciples to him; but he argues from it to their observance of his precepts, seeing ye do love me; as all do who are born again, who have...
If ye love me, keep my commandments. Ver. 15. _If ye love me, keep my commandments_] No better way to seal up love than by being obedient. "How canst thou love me," said she, "when thy heart is not w...
_If ye love me_ As ye profess to do, _keep my commandments_ For that will be a surer test and more acceptable expression of your regard for me than all your trouble and concern at parting with me. Kee...
OF LOVE AND LIFE. The coming of the Comforter:...
IF YE LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS....
MINISTRY OF ENCOURAGEMENT CENTERED IN CHRIST PERSONALLY (vs.1-6) Had the Lord spoken the last words of chapter 13 with the object of discouraging Peter? By no means. For His next words are "Let not y...
12-17 Whatever we ask in Christ's name, that shall be for our good, and suitable to our state, he shall give it to us. To ask in Christ's name, is to plead his merit and intercession, and to depend u...
Do not show your love to me in mourning, and being troubled for my going from you; but show it by your obedience to what I have commanded you. True love must not evaporate in compliment, but discover...
Cyprian Treatise I On the Unity of the Church And again: "If ye do the things that I command you, henceforth I call you not servants, but friends."[7] A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity...
John 14:15 If G1437 love G25 (G5725) Me G3165 keep G5083 (G5657) My G1699 commandments G1785...
THEY MUST KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS AND HE WILL RESPOND BY GIVING THEM THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH FOR THEIR HELP AND STRENGTHENING (JOHN 14:15). Central to what the disciples are to receive is their obedience. T...
“If you love me you will constantly keep in mind and obey what I have commanded you (literally ‘my commandments'), and I will pray the Father and he will give you another ideal companion (paraclete)”....
2). THE DEMANDS THAT HE MAKES AND THE PROVISION THAT HE IS MAKING FOR THEIR FULFILMENT (JOHN 14:12). Jesus now stresses what He is expecting from His disciples and assures them that full provision has...
Judas has now gone out; Jesus is alone with the disciples whom He loved; and the last disturbing element has been removed from the midst of the little company. But the hour is come when the servants m...
John 14:15. IF YE LOVE ME, YE WILL KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS. An abiding communion between the glorified Redeemer and His disciples on earth has been spoken of as established, a communion, as we have alrea...
IF YE LOVE ME (εαν αγαπατε με). Third-class condition "if ye keep on loving (present active subjunctive, same contract form as indicative) me." Cf. verse John 14:23.YE WILL KEEP (τηρησετε). Future...
John 14:15 The Christian the Temple of God I. This is the misery of sin, that it brings what is so unholy, so close, into the Presence of the All-Holy. Sin begins in thought, yet thought is of the so...
John 14:15. _If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever, Even the Spirit of truth, whom the world can...
We have often read this chapter, both in our private meditations, and at our public worship; but we cannot read it too often. It is sweet as honey and the honeycomb. It contains the very quintessence...
I suppose that many of you know this chapter by heart. I notice that, in all old Christians' Bibles, this leaf is well worn, sometimes worn out. We have here our Lord's homely talk to his disciples; i...
John 14:1. _Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me._ Here is a troubled company of disciples, very much cast down, so their Divine Master, full of infinite tenderness,...
Let us read that well-known and most blessed chapter, John 14:1, which so clearly shows our Saviour's tender consideration for the comfort of his people, lest the great grief excited in them by his im...
John 14:1. _Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me._ You will be troubled; that cannot be helped. But let not your heart be troubled. You are like a ship, and all the w...
John 14:15. _If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;_ Is it not very sweet to think that the Spi...
John 14:15. _If ye love me, keep my commandments._ We cannot expect the Holy Spirit to dwell with us unless we are obedient to the commands of Christ. Our Saviour here tells us much about the spirit...
This is a chapter which I suppose most of us know by heart, full of comfort, a very river of delight. Remember that our Lord spoke this to his own beloved ones to the inner circle. It was not address...
CONTENTS: Jesus foretells His second coming and promises the Holy Spirit to believers. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Thomas, disciples, Philip, Judas. CONCLUSION: Jesus is the way let us foll...
John 14:1. _Let not your heart be troubled._ Our Saviour having denounced Judas as a traitor, and plainly spoken of his own departure out of the world, left no jewish hope of a temporal kingdom; sorro...
IF YOU LOVE ME. Obedience grows out of love!...
THE SECRET OF OBEDIENCE If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments. John 14:15. A small boy of my acquaintance has a wonderful toy. It is a motor wagon which runs upon a circle of rails. On the dri...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 14:15 Jesus’ words echo Deuteronomy 1:1 (compare Deuteronomy 6:5;...
1-31 CHAPTER 14 _Let not your heart_, &c. Christ saw that the minds of His disciples were troubled, _i.e_. anxious and sorrowful, because He had foretold them that His own departure and Passion, thro...
_If ye love Me_, &c. Christ here takes His farewell of His disciples, gives His last commands, which pertain to the exercise of the three chief theological virtues, faith, hope, and charity. Concernin...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 14:15. KEEP MY COMMANDMENT.—“Ask in My name. Keep My,” etc. These go together. We can only truly pray in His name when we _keep,_ etc. John 14:16. ἐγὼ ἐρωτήσω.—T...
EXPOSITION JOHN 14:1 It is not necessary to follow Codex D and some of the versions, and here introduce into the text καὶ εἶπεν τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ._ _It is enough that the awful warning to Pe...
Jesus said, Let not your heart be troubled (John 14:1): Now, they were troubled because He had been saying these things. "I'm going to go away; where I go you cannot come." He's been talking about H...
1 Corinthians 16:22; 1 John 2:3; 1 John 4:19; 1 John 4:20; 1 John 5:2
Keep [τ η ρ η σ α τ ε]. The best tests read thrhsete, ye will keep. Lay up in your hearts and preserve by careful watching. See on reserved, 1 Peter 1:4. My commandments [τ α ς ε ν τ ο λ α ς τ α ς ε...
THE COMFORT CHAPTER John 14:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS How wonderful it is that our Lord Jesus Christ could give forth such words of comfort in the hour when He, Himself, was hastening on toward the angu...
THE COMFORT CHAPTER John 14:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We remember the statement, "Never man spake like this Man." These words were true from many viewpoints. However, of all the wonderful things which ou...
In these words our Saviour implicitly reproves his disciples for their fond way of expressing their love to him, by doating upon his bodily presence, and sorrowing immoderately for his absence and he...