John 15

John 15:1

How sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? - How can these things be reconciled? Very easily. He first dies, and then abideth for ever. Who is this Son of man? - Is he the Christ? Psalms 110:4.

John 15:2

Then Jesus said to them - Not answering them directly, but exhorting them to improve what they had heard already. The light - I and my doctrine.

John 15:3

The children of light - The children of God, wise, holy, happy.

John 15:4

Though he had done so many miracles before them - So that they could not but see them.

John 15:5

The arm of the Lord - The power of God manifested by Christ, in his preaching, miracles, and work of redemption. Isaiah 53:1.

John 15:6

Therefore now they could not believe - That is, by the just judgment of God, for their obstinacy and wilful resistance of the truth, they were at length so left to the hardness of their hearts, that neither the miracles nor doctrines of our Lord could make any impression upon them.

John 15:7

Isaiah 6:10; Matthew 13:14; Acts 28:26.

John 15:8

When he saw his glory - Christ’s, Isaiah 6:1, &c. And it is there expressly said to be the glory of the Lord, Jehovah, the Supreme God.

John 15:11

Jesus said with a loud voice - This which follows to the end of the chapter, is with St. John the epilogue of our Lord’s public discourses, and a kind of recapitulation of them. Believeth not on me - Not on me alone, but also on him that sent me: because the Father hath sent the Son, and because he and the Father are one.

John 15:12

And he that seeth me - By the eye of faith.

John 15:14

I judge him not - Not now: for I am not come to judge the world. See, Christ came to save even them that finally perish! Even these are a part of that world, which he lived and died to save.

John 15:17

His commandment - Kept, is life everlasting - That is the way to it, and the beginning of it.

John 15:19

Before the feast - Namely, on Wednesday, in the paschal week. Having loved his own - His apostles, he loved them to the end - Of his life.

John 15:20

Having now - Probably now first.

John 15:21

Jesus knowing - Though conscious of his own greatness, thus humbled himself.

John 15:22

Layeth aside his garments - That part of them which would have hindered him.

John 15:23

Into the basin - A large vessel was usually placed for this very purpose, wherever the Jews supped.

John 15:25

What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter - We do not now know perfectly any of his works, either of creation, providence, or grace. It is enough that we can love and obey now, and that we shall know hereafter.

John 15:26

If I wash thee not - If thou dost not submit to my will, thou hast no part with me - Thou art not my disciple. In a more general sense it may mean, If I do not wash thee in my blood, and purify thee by my Spirit, thou canst have no communion with me, nor any share in the blessings of my kingdom.

John 15:27

Lord, not my feet only - How fain would man be wiser than God! Yet this was well meant, though ignorant earnestness.