Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
a new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another—This was the new feature of it. Christ's love to His people in giving His life a ransom for them was altogether new, and consequently as a Model and Standard for theirs to one another. It is not, however, something transcending the great moral law, which is "the old commandment" (I John 2:7, and see on Mark 12:28-33), but that law in a new and peculiar form. Hence it is said to be both new and old (I John 2:7-8).
Little children—From the height of His own glory He now descends, with sweet pity, to His "little children," all now His own. This term of endearment, nowhere else used in the Gospels, and once only employed by Paul (Galatians 4:19), is appropriated by the beloved disciple himself, who no fewer than seven times employs it in his first Epistle.
Ye shall seek me—feel the want of Me.
as I said to the Jews— (John 7:34; John 8:21). But oh in what a different sense!
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing John 13:34:
John 13:31
John 15:12-16
Galatians 6:2
1 Timothy 6:14
1 John 2:8
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