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, &c., as the pope's shavelings (which yet is grown so bald a business, that now they begin to be ashamed of it); but love is Christ's cognizance, acknowledged by very heathens, who could say that no people in the world did love one another so as Christians did. Vide ut invicem se ament Christiani! dixerunt Pagani, referente. (Tertulliano in Apologet.) As the curtains of the tabernacle were joined by loops, so are true Christians by love. Philadelphia is blamed for nothing, Revelation 3:18 .