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John Gill
These things I command you,.... The doctrines which Christ spake, as one having authority, concerning the vine and branches; his love to his disciples, in laying down his life for them, and in accounting and using them as friends, and not servants; in choosing, ordaining, and sending them forth, for the ends above mentioned; these were delivered by him with this view, to promote brotherly love...
Matthew Henry
It is generally agreed that Christ's discourse in this and the next chapter was at the close of the last supper, the night in which he was betrayed, and it is a continued discourse, not interrupted as that in the foregoing chapter was; and what he chooses to discourse of is very pertinent to the present sad occasion of a farewell sermon. Now that he was about to leave them, I. They would be...
Charles H. Spurgeon
These things I command you, that ye love one another. Jesus! send us this spirit of love, we pray thee. Amen.
Charles H. Spurgeon
These things I command you, that ye love one another. As if there were many things in one in that command; It is but one command, but it is so comprehensive that all the commandments are fulfilled in this one: “that ye love one another.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
These things I command you, that ye love one another. Our Lord repeated the command, for he knew how prone even his disciples would be to disobey it.
Charles H. Spurgeon
These things I command you, that ye love one another. O you professors, who have no love to one another, you are breaking the King’s commandment! You are living in direct violation of a plain command that is most dear to his heart. Oh, that we might constantly hear it and obey it! “These things I command you, that ye love one another.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. These things I command you, that ye love one another. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but...