John 13:35 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. ”

• John 13:35 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  By this shall all men ... - That is, your love for each other shall be so decisive evidence that you are like the Saviour, that all people shall see and know it. It shall be the thing by which yo...

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• John 13:35 - 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 13:35 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  By . In. Greek. en. App-104. love . Greek agape. App-135. one to another . among (Greek. en) yourselves. Compare the only other place in the Gospels where en allelois occurs ( Mark 9:50...

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• John 13:35 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  35. By this all men will know. Christ again confirms what he had formerly said, that they who mutually love one another have not been in vain taught in his school; as if he had said, Not onl...

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• John 13:35 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. By this shall all men know, etc. - From this time forward, this mutual and disinterested love shall become the e...

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• John 13:35 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples,— "By loving one another sincerely and fervently, you shall prove yourselves my disciples, to the convictionofmankind,whocannotbutbe sensible t...

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• John 13:35 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples - the disciples of Him who laid down His life for thos...

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• John 13:35 - 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 13:35 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples. — The thought of their state of orphanage when He should depart from them is still present. He gives them a bond of union, by which they should...

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• John 13:35 - 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 13:35 - 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 13:35 - 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 13:35 - 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 13:35 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  CHRISTIAN PHILANTHROPY ‘By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another: even as I loved you, that ye also may love one another.’ John 13:34-35 (R.V. marg.)...

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• John 13:35 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  By this shall all men know ,.... Not only by this you yourselves will know that ye have passed from death to life, that the true work of grace is begun upon your hearts; nor only by this will you kn...

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• John 13:35 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. Ver. 35. By this shall all men know ] Other men's disciples are known by their titles, habits, ceremonies, &...

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• John 13:35 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  By this shall all men know that you are my disciples Your loving one another sincerely and fervently, and in the manner and degree I now enjoin, will be the most acceptable and the most ornamenta...

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• John 13:35 - 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 13:35 - 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 13:35 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  A disciple hath his name, either from learning from his master, or from following his master and treading in his steps: take it in either sense, loving one another is a certain note of being Christ's...

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• John 13:35 - 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 13:35 - 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 13:35 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  John 13:34-35 I. Look at the command of brotherly love as it was given in old time. It was contained in the last six of the Ten Commandments; or putting on one side the fifth commandment as being...

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• John 13:35 - 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 13:35 - The Biblical Illustrator

  By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples The social principles of Christianity (2):--How seldom is this test of true discipleship to Christ appealed to. We look for orthodoxy of sen...

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• John 13:35 - 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 13:35 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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

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• John 13:35 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 John 2:10 ; 1 John 2:5 ; 1 John 3:10-14 ; 1 John 4:20 ; 1 John 4:21 ; Acts 4:32-35 ; Acts 5:12-14 ; Genesis 13:7 ; Genesis 13:8 ; John 17:21

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