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New Testament ,
The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ,
According To John Chapter 15
1 By the parable of the vine,
2 and the branches,
5-6 he declareth how disciples
may bear fruit.
12-17 He commendeth mutual love.
18 He exhorteth them to bear afflictions
patiently,
20 by his own example.
1 I (1) Am the true vine, and my Father
is the husbandman.
(1) We are of nature dry and fit for
nothing but the fire; Therefore that we
may live and be fruitful, we must first be
grafted into Christ, as it were into a vine
by the Father's hand; and then be daily
shred with a continual meditation of the
word and the cross; otherwise it shall not
avail any man at all to have been grafted,
unless he cleave fast unto the vine,
and so draw juice out of it.
2 (*) Every branch that beareth not fruit
in me, he taketh away; and every one
that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it
may bring forth more fruit.
(*) Matthew 15:13 .
3 (*) Now are ye clean through the
word, which I have spoken unto you.
(*) John 13:10 .
4 Abide in me, and I in you.
As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself,
except it abide in the vine, no more can
ye, (*) except ye abide in me.
(*) We can bring forth no fruit, except
we be engrafted in Christ.
5 I am that vine, ye are the branches; he
that abideth in me, and I in him, the same
bringeth forth much fruit, for without me
can ye do nothing.
6 (*) If a man abide not in me, he is cast
forth as a branch, and withereth;
and men gather them, and cast them into
the fire, and they burn.
(*) Colossians 2:23 .
7 (*) (2) If ye abide in me, and my
() words abide in you, ask () what ye
will, and it shall be done to you.
(*) 1 John 3:22 .
(2) He abideth in Christ, which resteth
in his doctrine, and therefore bringeth
forth good fruit; And the Father will deny
such a one nothing.
() We must be rooted in Jesus Christ by
faith, which cometh of the word of God.
() So that ye follow God's word, which
ye comprehended by faith.
8 (a) Herein is my Father glorified, that
ye bear much fruit, and be made my
disciples.
(a) As who would say,
Herein shall my Father be glorified,
and herein also shall you be my disciples,
if you bring forth much fruit.
9 (3) As the father hath loved me, so have
I loved you; (b) continue in (*) my love.
(3) The love of the Father towards the Son,
and of the Son towards us, and ours towards
God and our neighbor, are joined together
with an inseparable knot; and there is nothing
more sweet and pleasant than it is.
Now this love sheweth itself by its effects,
a most perfect example whereof, Christ
himself exhibited unto us.
(b) That is, in that love, wherewith I love
you, which love is on both parts.
(*) Wherewith I love you.
10 If ye shall keep my commandments,
ye shall abide in my love, as I have kept
my Father's commandments, and abide
in his love.
11 These things have I spoken unto you,
that my joy might remain in you,
and that your joy might be (*) full.
(*) Perfect and entire.
12 (*) This is my commandment, that ye
love one another, as I have loved you.
(*) John 13:34; 1 Thessalonians 4:9;
1 John 3:11; 1 John 4:21 .
13 Greater love than this hath no man,
when any man bestoweth his life for his
friends.
14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever
I command you.
15 (4) Henceforth call I you not servants,
for the servant knoweth not what his
master doeth; but I have called you friends,
for (*) all things that I have heard of
my Father, have I made known to you.
(4) The doctrine of the Gospel
(as it is uttered by Christ's own mouth)
is a most perfect and absolute declaration
of the counsel of God, which pertaineth
to our salvation, and is committed unto
the Apostles.
(*) So that there is nothing omitted that
is necessary for us and concerning our
salvation.
16 (5) Ye (c) have not chosen me, but I
have chosen you, and ordained you,
(*) that ye go and bring forth fruit, and that
your fruit remain, that whatsoever ye shall
ask of the Father in my Name, he may give
it you.
(5) Christ is the author and preserver of
the ministry of the Gospel, even to the
world's end, but the ministers have above
all thing need of prayer and brotherly love.
(c) This place teacheth us plainly, that
our salvation cometh from the only favor
and gracious goodness of the everlasting
God towards us, and of nothing that we do
or can deserve.
(*) Matthew 18:19 .
17 These things command I you, that
ye love one another.
18 (6) If the world hate you, ye know
that it hated me before you.
(6) It ought not only not to fear, but rather
confirm the faithful ministers of Christ,
when they shall be hated of the world
as their Master was.
19 If ye were of the world, the world
would love his own; but because ye are
not of the world, but I have chosen you
out of the world, therefore the world
hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto
you, (*) The servant is not greater than
his master.
() If they have persecuted me, they will
persecute you also; if they have () kept
my word, they will also keep () yours.
(*) John 13:16; Matthew 10:24 .
() Matthew 24:9 .
() The word also signifieth, to be diligent
to espy faults to trip one in.
() Which is the selfsame word, but called
their's because they preach it.
21 (7) But (*) all these things will they do
unto you for my Name's sake, because
they have not known him that sent me.
(7) The hatred that the world beareth
against Christ, proceedeth of the
blockishness of the mind, which
notwithstanding is voluntarily blind, so
that the world can pretend no excuse
to cover their fault.
(*) John 16:4 .
22 (d) If I had not come and spoken
unto them, they (*) should not have had
sin, but now have they no () cloak for
their sin.
(d) As who would say,
If I had not come, these men would not
have stuck to have said still before
God's judgment seat, that they are
religious, and void of sin; but seeing I
came to them, and they clean refuse me,
they can have no cloak for their wickedness.
(*) But should have seemed to be innocent,
if I had not discovered their malice.
() In that they refused Christ it taketh from
them all excuse wherewith they would have
justified themselves as if they had been
very holy and without all sin.
23 He that hateth me, hateth my Father also.
24 If I had not done works among them
which none other man did, they had not
had sin; but now have they both seen,
and have hated both me, and my Father.
25 But it is that the word might be fulfilled,
that is written in their (e)
() Law, (*) They hated me without a cause.
(e) Some time by this word, Law, are meant
the five books of Moses, but in this place,
the whole Scripture; for the place alleged
is in the Psalms.
() That is, in the holy Scriptures.
(*) Psalm 35:19 .
26 (8) But when that Comforter shall come,
(*) whom I will send unto you from the
Father, even the Spirit of truth, which
proceedeth of the Father, he shall testify
of me.
(8) Against the rage of the wicked, we
shall stand surely by the inward testimony
of the holy Ghost; But the holy Ghost
speaketh no otherwise, than he spake
by the mouth of the Apostles.
(*) John 14:26; Luke 24:49 .
27 And ye shall witness also, because ye
have been with me from the beginning.
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