John 13:34 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. ”

• John 13:34 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  A new commandment - This command he gave them as he was about to leave them, to be a badge of discipleship, by which they might be known as his friends and followers, and by which they might be d...

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• John 13:34 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  John 13:33 to John 17:26 . The Last Discourses and Prayer. Perhaps this is the best place to consider the general arrangement and character of the final discourses. They present the same problem...

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• John 13:34 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  new. Greek. kainos. See note on Matthew 9:17 .

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• John 13:34 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  34. A new commandment I give you. To the consolation he adds an exhortation, that they should love one another; as if he had said, “Yet while I am absent from you in body, testify, by mutu...

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• John 13:34 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. A new commandment I give unto you - In what sense are we to understand that this was a...

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• John 13:34 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  A new commandment I give— Our Lord calls this a new commandment, not because mutual love had never been enjoined on mankind before, but because it was a precept of peculiar excellence: for the word...

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• John 13:34 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as [`even as'...

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• John 13:34 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Last Supper 1-17. The Supper and the Feet-washing. This supper is identified by almost all modern authorities with the Last Supper, which took place on Thursday night at Jerusalem ( Matthew 26...

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• John 13:34 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another. — There is no reference in the context to the Ten Commandments, and we are not therefore to seek the meaning of the “new commandment” in...

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• John 13:34 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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 straig...

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• John 13:34 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Sign and Seal of Discipleship John 13:31-38 It was a relief when the traitor was gone. The Lord could now speak freely of His love and of His approaching glory, expatiating on the shining t...

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• John 13:34 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  For a time our Lord now devoted Himself to His own, and in this connection we have the account of His washing the disciples' feet. The whole action was Eastern, and was the action of a slave: By what...

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• John 13:34 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. (32) If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightwa...

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• John 13:34 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE NEW COMMANDMENT ‘A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you.’ John 13:34 The command to love is always new. Every individual and every generation mu...

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• John 13:34 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  A new commandment I give unto you ,.... As parents, when they take their leave of their children, in their dying moments, give them proper instructions and orders, and lay their dying injunctions on...

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• John 13:34 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. Ver. 34. A new commandment, &c. ] New, ratione claritatis et facilatis; for...

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• John 13:34 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Little children An expression intended to signify both their weakness and his tenderness and compassion; as if he had said, Ye whom I love with parental tenderness, and whom my heart pities under a...

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• John 13:34 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  WASHING HIS DISCIPLES' FEET (vs.1-17) We are brought now to consider the last hours of the Lord Jesus before the cross. No longer does He minister to the world, but to His own disciples, from cha...

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• John 13:34 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christ's Departure Predicted.       31 Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified...

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• John 13:34 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The commandment of loving one another is strictly no new commandment, we find it in the law of Moses, Leviticus 19:18 ; often pressed in the New Testament, 1 Thessalonians 15:17 Ephesians 5:2...

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• John 13:34 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Path to Glory Which Jesus Must Tread Alone ( John 13:31-38 ). The opening two verses reflect Jesus' awareness of the pivotal nature of the situation. As He thought back to the glory which had...

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• John 13:34 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 13:31 . Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus saith, etc. —“Ye are not all clean,” Jesus had said; but now the traitor had gone, and a higher spiritual teach...

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• John 13:34 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  John 13:34 I. The new commandment has been once for all uttered the new law is given; and each generation, at whatever point of the advance to its fulfilment God may have ordained its place, is bo...

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• John 13:34 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  John 13:1 . Before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come. What now transpired was on the Tuesday, while at supper in the house of Simon. Judas was now rebuked before al...

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• John 13:34 - The Biblical Illustrator

  A new commandment I give unto you The new commandment I. WHY IS THIS CALLED NEW? 1. Negatively. Not as if it was not enjoined before ( 1 John 2:7 ; Leviticus 19:18 ). 2. Positively. (1...

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• John 13:34 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION IV. THE FINAL MANIFESTATIONS IN WORD AND ACTION OF THE LOGOS INCARNATE , EXPRESSING ITSELF ABSOLUTELY AND TO THE UTTERMOST AS LOVE . (Jn 13-21....

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• John 13:34 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Concerning Christ's Glorification. God glorified in the Son:

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• John 13:34 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 12:26 ; 1 Corinthians 12:27 ; 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ; 1 John 2:8-10 ; 1 John 3:14-18 ; 1 John 3:23 ; 1 John 4:21 ; 1 John 4:7-11 ; 1 John 5:1 ; 1 Peter 1:22 ; 1 Peter 3:8 ; 1...

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• John 13:34 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  A new commandment — Not new in itself; but new in the school of Christ: for he had never before taught it them expressly. Likewise new, as to the degree of it, as I have loved you.

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