These things have I spoken— "I have spoken these things, hoping they will influence you to keep my commandments, whereby you will continue the objects of my love; and, in the consciousness thereof, will be filled with the same kind of joy which I feel from obeying my Father's commandments, and from the consciousness of his love. I have spoken these things likewise, that your eternal joy may be full in heaven, where you shall shine as stars, because you have turned many to righteousness." Many translate the passage thus: These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy in you may remain, &c. "I have spoken these things, that, by your diligence in obeying them, I shall always have cause to rejoice, on account of your behaving as my apostles and disciples ought to behave; and you cause to rejoice in my friendship, in the honour I have conferred upon you, and in the eternal possession of heaven."
Related Commentaries of John 15:11
John 15:11
11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.