John 15:3

John 15:3. Now ye are clean--

For so it should be.

John 15:3. Through the word which I have spoken unto you.

While Christ was with his disciples he kept his vine continually pruned by the word which he spoke. That word cut off the non-fruit-bearing-branches, for we read that after that saying there were some that went back, and walked no more with him, for they said, "’This is a hard saying; who can bear it?" That was the word pruning off the useless branches. And there were others who were grieved by his Word. These, were good people, and it did them good. It was a godly sorrow that led to bringing forth fruits meet for repentance.