John 15
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The Vine and the Branches
1 “I am # 15:1 Ex 3:14; Jn 8:24,58 the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2Every branch in me that does not produce fruit he removes, # 15:2 Mt 3:10; 7:19; 15:13; Lk 3:9; 13:6–9; Jn 15:6; Rm 11:17,22 and he prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit. 3You are already clean # 15:3 Ps 24:4; Ti 1:15 because of the word I have spoken to you. 4Remain in me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, neither can you unless you remain in me. # 15:4 Jn 6:56; 8:28; 1Jn 2:5 5I am the vine; # 15:5 Jms 3:12 you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him produces much fruit, # 15:5 Mk 4:8 because you can do nothing without me. 6If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown aside # 15:6 Jn 15:2 like a branch and he withers. They gather them, throw them into the fire, # 15:6 2Th 1:8 and they are burned. # 15:6 1Th 1:8; 2Pt 3:7 7If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you. # 15:7 Jn 14:14 8My Father is glorified # 15:8 Jn 11:4; 17:1; 1Pt 2:12 by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be # 15:8 Or and become my disciples.
Christlike Love
9 “As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you. Remain in my love. # 15:9 Col 1:13; 1Jn 5:20; Jd 21 10If you keep my commands you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. # 15:10 Jn 5:19
11 “I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. # 15:11 1Jn 1:4; 2Jn 12
12 “This is my command: Love one another as I have loved # 15:12 Jn 3:16 you. 13No one has greater love than this: to lay down his life # 15:13 Rm 5:8; 1Jn 3:16 for his friends. 14You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15I do not call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn’t know what his master # 15:15 Or lord,# 15:15 Col 3:22 is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from my Father. 16You did not choose me, but I chose you. # 15:16 Mt 24:22 I appointed you to go and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask # 15:16 Jn 10:25 the Father in my name, # 15:16 Jn 14:13 he will give you. # 15:16 Jn 11:22; 16:23
17 “This is what I command you: Love one another.
Persecutions Predicted
18 “If the world hates # 15:18 Lk 6:27; 19:14 you, understand that it hated me before it hated you. 19If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen # 15:19 Eph 1:4 you out of it, the world hates you. 20Remember the word I spoke to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ # 15:20 Jn 13:16 If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, # 15:20 Jn 8:51 they will also keep yours. 21But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, # 15:21 Mk 13:13; Jn 10:25 because they don’t know # 15:21 Jn 3:11; 7:28; 20:9 the one who sent me. 22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. # 15:22 Ezk 2:5; 3:7; Jn 9:41; Rm 1:20; 2:1; 6:23 Now they have no excuse for their sin. 23The one who hates me also hates my Father. # 15:23 Jn 5:23 24If I had not done the works # 15:24 Jn 5:36; Heb 3:9; Rv 15:3 among them that no one else has done, # 15:24 Jn 3:2; 7:31; 9:32; 10:32,37 they would not be guilty of sin. # 15:24 Jn 9:41 Now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. 25But this happened so that the statement written in their law might be fulfilled: # 15:25 Jn 12:38; 13:18; 17:12; 18:9,32; 19:24,36 They hated me for no reason. # 15:25 Ps 69:4,# 15:25 Ps 69:4
The Counselor’s Ministry
26 “When the Counselor # 15:26 Jn 14:16 comes, the one I will send to you from the Father # 15:26 Jn 14:26 — the Spirit of truth # 15:26 Ps 119:142; Jn 1:33; 14:17; 16:13; Rm 3:7; 1Jn 4:6 who proceeds from the Father — he will testify about me. 27You also will testify, # 15:27 Ac 4:20 because you have been with me from the beginning.
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Yochanan 15
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1I am HaGefen HaAmittit (the true vine)#15:1 Ps 80:7-19; Isa 5:1-7; Ezek 19:10 and HaAv of me is the Korem (vineyard proprietor). 2Every sarig (shoot, branch) in me not bearing p'ri#15:2 Ps 92:14 He takes it away, and every sarig bearing p'ri He prunes that it may bear much p'ri. 3You are already metoharim (clean) because of the dvar which I have spoken to you. 4Remain in me and I in you. As the sarig is not able to bear p'ri from itself, unless it remains on the gefen (vine), so neither are you, unless you remain in me. 5Ani Hu (I am) HaGefen; you are the sarigim (branches). The one remaining in me and I in him, this one bears much p'ri, because apart from me you are not able to do anything. 6Unless someone remains in me, he is cast out as the sarig and is dried up and they gather them, and into the Eish they throw them, and they are burned.#15:6 Ezek 15:1-8; 19:10 7If you remain in me and the devarim of me remain in you, whatever you want, ask, and it will be done for you! 8By this HaAv of me was given kavod, that much p'ri you bear, and so be my talmidim. 9As HaAv has ahavah for me, so I have ahavah for you. Remain in my ahavah.#15:9 See Yd 1:21 10If you are shomer of my mitzvot, you will remain in my ahavah, as I of the mitzvot of HaAv of me have been shomer, and I remain in His ahavah. 11These things I have spoken to you that the simcha of me may be in you and the simcha of you may be made shleimah.
12This is my mitzvah for you, that you have ahavah (agape) one for the other, as I have ahavah (agape) for you. 13Ahavah (agape) gedolah than this no one has, that someone lay down his neshamah for his chaverim.#15:13 Gn 44:33 14You are my chaverim, if you are shomer oner my mitzvot.#15:14 Job 16:20; Prov 18:24 15No longer do I call you avadim, because the eved does not have da'as of what his Adon is doing. But you I have called chaverim, because all things which I heard from HaAv of me, of all these things I gave you da'as.#15:15 Ex 33:11 16It was not that you chose me, but I chose you, and have given you s'michah that you go and bear p'ri and the p'ri of you remain, that whatever you ask HaAv b'Shem of me (Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach), HaAv may give it to you. 17I am giving you these mitzvot, that you have ahavah (agape) one for the other.
18If the Olam Hazeh has sin'as chinom (hatred without cause) for you,#15:18 Isa 66:5 be aware it has had sin'as chinom for me before you. 19If you were of the Olam Hazeh, the Olam Hazeh would have had ahavah for its own. But because from the Olam Hazeh you are not, but I chose you out of the Olam Hazeh, therefore the Olam Hazeh has sin'as chinom for you.#15:19 1Y 4:5; Yn 17:14 20Put in zikaron (remembrance) the dvar which I told you, An eved is not gadol (greater) than his Adon. If they brought redifah (persecution) on me, they will also bring redifah on you. If over my dvar they were shomer, also over yours they will be shomer. 21But all these things they will do to you on account of the Shem of me,#15:21 Isa 66:5 because they do not have da'as of the One having sent me. 22If I did not come and speak to them,#15:22 Ezek 2:5 they would not have chet; but now they have no ptur (excuse) for their chet. 23The one having sin'as chinom (hatred without cause) for me (Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach) has sin'as chinom for HaAv of me. 24If I did not do pe'ulot among them which no other man did, they would not have chet; but now they have beheld and they have had sin'as chinom for both me and HaAv of me. 25But this was that the dvar having been written in their Torah might be fulfilled, sone'ai chinom atzmu (They are many hating me without cause).#15:25 Ps 69:4 [5]; Ps 35:19; 109:3
26But when the Melitz Yosher (Praklit, Advocate, Counselor, Helper in Court) comes, whom I will send to you from HaAv, the Ruach Hakodesh, the Ruach HaEmes, who proceeds from HaAv, that one will gives solemn edut (testimony) about me. 27And you [Shlichim] will give solemn edut (testimony) also, because from the beginning you are with me.
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