The commandment of mutual love, based upon his example of love, John 15:12-17. 12. As I have loved you Very perfect indeed is that authority in the commandment of love which is based upon the example of him who commands. Christ is the only preacher of absolute perfection who fully exemplified, in his own instance, the perfection he preached. All true human preaching is above the practice of even the best preacher. read more
13. For his friends By laying down his life for them he demonstrated a love which no love could surpass. Others might faintly follow the example, but it is impossible that any should outdo it. Friends So called, as being loved by him, although they were originally, and before he died for them, enemies. So the apostle (Romans 5:9-10) is not contradicted. By so dying for them he raised them to the rank of friends. And in the case of all those who accept his atonement, he renders them,... read more
14. My friends, if ye do He affords them a scope for becoming in action his friends. He condescends to raise them into the most intimate companionship with himself. read more
15. Call you not servants Though they still may serve him, yet he raises them above a mere servile relation. He calls them not servants to the denial of the more exalted union. Servant knoweth not The servant, or slave, obeys without question the command he understands not. He is the tool of an arbitrary authority. But, to his friends, Christ has made known all things which the Father has revealed as the doctrines of salvation. Not absolutely all things, but all within... read more
16. Ye have not chosen me Students of the law among the Jews select their own masters and teachers; but not so have you selected me from among many others. I have chosen you It is I who have chosen and raised you to the rank of friends, and not you me. I have ordained, and given you official position, in order to your production of permanent fruit, and in order to your attaining the privilege of the answer of prayer, in my name, from the Father. read more
17. I command you Inasmuch as I have conferred upon you grace so stupendous, and a love so perfect, full rightly have I authority to command you. And my command is, that one command most fully authorized by my example the commandment of mutual love. read more
18. If the world hate you He had just been softening their heart with lessons of love. But to the loving heart no pain is greater than the consciousness of being the object of hate, and this little band of apostles are to be the central object of hatred to a surrounding world. The if suggests no doubt of the fact, but prepares them for the terrible reality and furnishes them the antidote it hated me before it hated you. You are hated, then, not because you are bad, but because you are... read more
18-27. Hatred of the world to the apostles, John 15:18-21; its guilt and aggravation, John 15:22-25; against which shall be the testimony of the Comforter and the apostles to Christ, John 15:26-27. Thus far in his valedictory the Saviour has enjoined the adherence in love of his apostles to himself and to each other. From this internal bond of union he now turns to an external pressure from a hostile world, which may aid to render that union still more compact. read more
19. The world Five times is the world named in this verse. And what, truly, is this so-named world? It is, of course, not the physical frame of the globe, nor is it the human race as such. It is the living, fallen, unregenerate race, with whom self-interest is supreme; to whom right is a word of feeble meaning, and holiness a term of disgust; to whom sin is a trifle or an unreality; to whom God in his true attributes is offensive, and of whom Satan, but dimly disguised, is the... read more
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Wesley's Explanatory Notes - John 15:26
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:When the Comforter is come, whom I will send from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me — The Spirit's coming, and being sent by our Lord from the Father, to testify of him, are personal characters, and plainly distinguish him from the Father and the Son; and his title as the Spirit of... read more