John 13:31-35

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - John 13:31-35

This and what follows, to the end of John 13:31-14:31; 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 table? They applied themselves to profitable discourse, to teach us as much as we can to make conversation with our friends at table serviceable to religion. Christ begins this discourse. The more forward we are humbly to promote that communication which is good, and to the use of edifying,... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 13:31-32

13:31-32 When Judas had gone out, Jesus said: "Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him; and now God will glorify himself in him; and he will glorify him immediately." This passage tells of the fourfold glory. (i) The glory of Jesus has come; and that glory is the Cross. The tension is gone; any doubts that remained have been finally removed. Judas has gone out, and the Cross is a certainty. Here we are face to face with something which is of the very warp... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 13:33-35

13:33-35 "Little children, I am still going to be with you for a little while. You will search for me; and, as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you too: 'You cannot go where I am going.' I give you a new commandment, that you love one another; that you too love one another, as I have loved you; it is by this that all will know that you are my disciples--if you have love amongst each other." Jesus was laying down his farewell commandment to his disciples. The time was short; if they were... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 13:31

Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said ,.... Christ and his true disciples being together alone, he used a greater freedom of conversation with them, and entered into some discourse about his sufferings and death; with a view to give them some instructions about their future conduct and behaviour, and in order to support them under the loss of his presence; and tells them in the first place, that now is the son of man glorified : by "the son of man", he means himself; a phrase he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 13:32

If God be glorified in him ,.... Seeing this is a certain truth, is indisputably matter of fact, that all the perfections of God are glorified in Christ, by his sufferings and death: God shall also glorify him in himself ; either "with himself"; with his own glory, which was promised to Christ, and which he had before the world was, and for which he prays, John 17:5 , or by himself: by his own power, in raising him from the dead, setting him at his own right hand, and crowning him with... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 13:33

Little children, yet a little while I am with you ,.... Christ having removed the scandal of his death, by observing, that both he and his Father would be glorified by it, begins more freely to open his mind to his disciples, and acquaint them with it; whom he addresses in the most kind, tender, and affectionate manner, "little children", expressing the relation which subsisted between them, of which he was not unmindful; his great affection for them, his consideration of their weakness, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 13:34

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 them, so Christ taking his leave of his disciples, gives them his; which were, that they love one another : as brethren in the same family, children of the same Father, and fellow disciples with each other; by keeping and agreeing together, praying one for another, bearing one another's... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 13:35

By this shall all men know ,.... Not only by this you yourselves will know that ye have passed from death to life, that the true work of grace is begun upon your hearts; nor only by this will you know one another to be Christians; but by this all men, even the men of the world will know, that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another : and own and acknowledge it, as Tertullian F14 Apolog. c. 39. says the very Heathens did in his time; who would say, when they saw the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 13:31

Now is the Son of man glorified - Νυν εδοξασθη , Hath been glorified. Now it fully appears that I am the person appointed to redeem a lost world by my blood. I have already been glorified by this appointment, and am about to be farther glorified by my death, resurrection, and ascension. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 13:32

And shall straightway glorify him - Or, glorify him, ευθυς , immediately; "he did, not only in the miracles wrought at his death, but also in that remarkable case mentioned, John 18:6 , when the whole crowd that came to seize him were driven back with a word of his mouth, and fell to the ground. read more

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