A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
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Gill's Exposition
A new commandment I give unto you,.... As parents, when they take their leave of their children, in their dying moments, give them proper instructions and orders, and lay their dying injunctions on…
Barnes' Notes
A new commandment - This command he gave them as he was about to leave them, to be a badge of discipleship, by which they might be known as his friends and followers, and by which they might be…
Adam Clarke
A new commandment I give unto you - In what sense are we to understand that this was a new commandment? Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, was a positive precept of the law, Lev 19:18, and it is…
This and what follows, to the end of ch. 14, was Christ's table-talk with his disciples. When supper was done, Judas went out; but what did the Master and his disciples do, whom he left sitting at…
Cambridge Bible
A new commandment The commandment to love was not new, for -thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself" (Lev 19:18) was part of the Mosaic Law. But the motive is new; to love our neighbour because…
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