John 13:34

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 13:31-38

Jesus’ Final Words To His Apostles (John 13:31 to John 17:26 ). This next section, from John 13:31 to John 17:26, can be seen as the equivalent of the dying words of Jesus. Words spoken on approaching death, and especially on a deathbed, were considered to be particularly potent. There are numerous examples of this in Scripture, like the blessings of Jacob to his sons in Genesis 47:29 to Genesis 49:33, Moses’ farewell words in Deuteronomy 33:0, the farewell of Joshua to the nation of Israel... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 13:33-35

“Little children, I am with you for a little while longer. You will look for me, and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you, where I am going you cannot come. A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. In the same way that I have loved you, that you love one another. By this will all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love the one for the other”. Now in the light of the great events that lay ahead Jesus looked with fondness on His disciples, and called them... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - John 13:33-38

John 13:33 to John 17:26 . The Last Discourses and Prayer.— Perhaps this is the best place to consider the general arrangement and character of the final discourses. They present the same problems of style and language, of content and of arrangement, that are raised elsewhere in this gospel. The language and the theology of the author are conspicuous. And yet we cannot escape the conviction that a greater than “ John” is here, or fail to ask whether something of his style and theology was... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 13:34

The commandment of loving one another is strictly no new commandment, we find it in the law of Moses, Leviticus 19:18; often pressed in the New Testament, John 15:17; Ephesians 5:2; 1 John 4:21; 1 John 2:7 saith, it is no new commandment, ; see also 2 John 1:6. It is therefore called a new commandment, either because of the excellency of it, as new seemeth to be taken, Psalms 33:3; Isaiah 65:17; Matthew 26:29; or because it is expounded in the gospel in a new manner, pressed more plainly and in... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - John 13:31-35

EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTESJohn 13:31. Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus saith, etc.—“Ye are not all clean,” Jesus had said; but now the traitor had gone, and a higher spiritual teaching was given to the eleven. Now the hour of His crowning glory as the Son of man, the glory of uttermost humiliation for the sake of man, has come; and in that the Father’s love and mercy are also displayed.John 13:32. If God be glorified in Him.—Omitted in א, B, C, D, etc.John 13:33. Little... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 13:34

John 13:34 I. The new commandment has been once for all uttered the new law is given; and each generation, at whatever point of the advance to its fulfilment God may have ordained its place, is bound by it equally. Every individual Christian lives under the force of that law, and is responsible to Him for obedience to it. Such obedience is, in fact, each generation's portion of that upward work into fulness of love, which the Holy Spirit is carrying on in the whole race. And the same may be... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 13:34-35

John 13:34-35 I. Look at the command of brotherly love as it was given in old time. It was contained in the last six of the Ten Commandments; or putting on one side the fifth commandment as being of a peculiar kind, referring to one particular duty and not to our duty to our neighbour in general, we may say that the command to love one another is contained in the last five commandments of the decalogue. All these commandments, you will observe, are employed in telling us what we may not do,... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - John 13:1-38

Let's turn to the thirteenth chapter of the gospel according to John. We have come into a new section of the gospel of John, which carries us through chapter 17. And chapters 13 through 17 cover a period of approximately thirty-six hours or so. Probably more like a twenty-four hour period is covered in these next five chapters. So, this is beginning the night that Jesus was betrayed. And, His prayer in the seventeenth chapter of John is offered sometime prior to the Garden of Gethsemane... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - John 13:1-38

John 13:1 . Before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come. What now transpired was on the Tuesday, while at supper in the house of Simon. Judas was now rebuked before all present, for interrupting Mary, who by a secret prophetic impulse had anointed the Saviour. The traitor nevertheless yielded to the sudden temptation of the devil to betray his Master, for the reward of filthy lucre already promised by the council. His pride was enraged by reproof; and... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - John 13:34

John 13:34A new commandment I give unto youThe new commandmentI. WHY IS THIS CALLED NEW? 1. Negatively. Not as if it was not enjoined before (1 John 2:7; Leviticus 19:18). 2. Positively. (1) Newly freed from the false glosses of the Jews (Matthew 5:43-44). (2) Newly infused into the heart as well as commanded. (3) Christ adds a new authority to it, and a new obligation on us. (4) Because it is so excellent (Psalms 32:3). (5) It is to be performed according to a new pattern, viz., Christ’s love... read more

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