John 13:35

John 13:35 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
• New International Version (NIV)By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
• New King James Version (NKJV)By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Context of John 13:35

33Dear children, I will be with you only a little longer. And as I told the Jewish leaders, you will search for me, but you can’t come where I am going. 34So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.” 36Simon Peter asked, “Lord, where are you going?” And Jesus replied, “You can’t go with me now, but you will follow me later.” 37“But why can’t I come now, Lord?” he asked. “I’m ready to die for you.”

John 13:35 word by word

ἐν τούτῳ γνώσονται πάντες ὅτι ἐμοὶ μαθηταί ἐστε, ἐὰν ἀγάπην ἔχητε ἐν ἀλλήλοις.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Byἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• thisοὗτοςhoutos houtoi hautē hautai · this/he/she/itG3778
• shallγινώσκωginōskō · to knowG1097
• allπᾶςpas · allG3956
• thatὅτιhoti · that/since: thatG3754
• ye areεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• myἐμόςemos · mineG1699
• disciplesμαθητήςmathētēs · discipleG3101
• ifἐάνean · ifG1437
• ye haveἔχωechō · to have/beG2192
• loveἀγάπηagapē · loveG26
• to anotherἀλλήλωνallēlōn · one anotherG240

Cross-references for John 13:35

• John 17:21I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me.
• Genesis 13:7So disputes broke out between the herdsmen of Abram and Lot. (At that time Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land.)
• Acts 4:32All the believers were united in heart and mind. And they felt that what they owned was not their own, so they shared everything they had.
• Acts 5:12The apostles were performing many miraculous signs and wonders among the people. And all the believers were meeting regularly at the Temple in the area known as Solomon’s Colonnade.
• 1 John 2:5But those who obey God’s word truly show how completely they love him. That is how we know we are living in him.
• 1 John 3:10So now we can tell who are children of God and who are children of the devil. Anyone who does not live righteously and does not love other believers does not belong to God.
• 1 John 4:20If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a fellow believer, that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see?

Commentaries on John 13:35

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 35By this shall all men know, etc. - From this time forward, this mutual and disinterested love shall become the essential and distinctive mark of all my disciples. When they love one another with pure hearts, fervently, even unto death, then shall it fully appear that they are disciples of that person who laid down his life for his sheep, and who became, by dying, a ransom for all. The disciples of different teachers were known by their habits, or some…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 35By this shall all men … - That is, your love for each other shall be so decisive evidence that you are like the Saviour, that all people shall see and know it. It shall be the thing by which you shall be known among all men. You shall not be known by special rites or habits; not by a special form of dress or manner of speech; not by special austerities and unusual customs, like the Pharisees, the Essenes, or the scribes, but by deep, genuine, and tender…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 31-35Verses 31-35 Christ had been glorified in many miracles he wrought, yet he speaks of his being glorified now in his sufferings, as if that were more than all his other glories in his humbled state. Satisfaction was thereby made for the wrong done to God by the sin of man. We cannot now follow our Lord to his heavenly happiness, but if we truly believe in him, we shall follow him hereafter; meanwhile we must wait his time, and do his work. Before Christ…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 34-35The command for the disciples to love one another was not new (see Leviticus 19:18). However, loving each other as Jesus loved was a dramatic change. Jesus showed his love for God through perfect obedience (John 14:31). Now, he commanded that disciples show their love for him through committed obedience.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33-3533-35. Little children--From the height of His own glory He now descends, with sweet pity, to His "little children," all now His own. This term of endearment, nowhere else used in the Gospels, and once only employed by Paul (Ga 4:19), is appropriated by the beloved disciple himself, who no fewer than seven times employs it in his first Epistle. Ye shall seek me--feel the want of Me. as I said to the Jews--(Joh 7:34; 8:21). But oh in what a different sense!Read the comment

Topics related to John 13:35

• Commandments
• Love
• Righteous
• Righteousness

In the dictionaries

• Aside
• Clean
• Commandment
• Example
• Brotherly Kindness; Brotherly Love
• Jesus Christ
• John, Gospel of
• Love
• Parousia
• Sons of God (new Testament)

Commentaries on John 13

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings