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. Keeping Christ's commandments is evidently here put for the practice of godliness in general, and for the faithful and diligent discharge of their office as apostles in particular. And I will pray the Father Here we see, that he required a steady obedience to his commands, as the condition on which their prayers would be heard; (see John 15:7; 1 John 3:22;) and assured them, on their complying with that condition, he would send them another comforter, advocate, monitor, encourager, or intercessor, as the word παρακλητος may be properly rendered; another For Christ himself was one: that he may abide with you for ever
With you and your followers in faith, unto the end of the world; to supply the want of my bodily presence. Even the Spirit of truth Who has, reveals, testifies, and defends the truth, and whose office it is to guide my disciples into every branch of divine and sacred truth. Whom the world Carnal and worldly people, who do not love or fear God; cannot receive Except in the way of repentance and faith, in which way they will not be persuaded to walk; because it seeth him not Having no spiritual senses, no internal eye, to discern the nature, necessity, or utility of his influences; nor consequently knoweth him. But ye know him Namely, in some measure, even now, by his powerful operation in you and by you; for he dwelleth Greek, μενει, abideth; with you In part, helping your infirmities, awakening your minds to a sense of the certainty and importance of things spiritual and eternal, and exciting in you sincere and earnest desires to know and do the will of God; and shall be in you By a much more ample communication, both of his gifts and graces: constituting you the temples of God, and a habitation of his holiness.