John 15:13

John 15:13

11 “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and ^athat your joy may be full.

12 ^aThis is My ^bcommandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

13 ^aGreater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.

14 ^aYou are My friends if you do whatever I command you.

15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, ^afor all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.

16 ^aYou did not choose Me, but I chose you and ^bappointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father ^cin My name He may give you.

17 These things I command you, that you love one another.

The World’s Hatred

18 ^a“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.

19 ^aIf you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet ^bbecause you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Than this (tauthv). Ablative case after the comparative adjective meizona and feminine agreeing with thv agaphv (love) understood.

That a man lay down his life (ina tiv thn yuxhn autou qh). Object clause (non-final use of ina in apposition with the ablative pronoun tauthv and the second aorist active subjunctive of tiqhmi. For the phrase see John 10:11 of the good shepherd. Cf. I John 3:16; Romans 5:7 f.

For his friends (uper twn filwn autou). "In behalf of his friends" and so "in place of his friends." "Self-sacrifice is the high-water mark of love" (Dods). For this use of uper see John 11:50; Galatians 3:13; II Corinthians 5:14 f.; Romans 5:7 f.

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