John 13:35

Translations

Modern

By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”

Traditional

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

Literal

By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you shall have love among one another.”

Latin

In hoc cognoscent omnes quia discipuli mei estis, si dilectionem habueritis ad invicem.

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Greek

English

By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”

Notes

John 13:34–35

The 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.

John 13:1–38

The setting is the final Passover meal of Jesus on Thursday evening. During this meal, Judas Iscariot betrays Jesus. John does not describe the meal itself like the Synoptic Gospels do (Matthew 26:17–29; Mark 14:12–25; Luke 22:7–20; see also 1 Corinthians 11:23–26). John focuses on other activities at the event, such as:

the foot washing (John 13:1–17),
Judas’s betrayal (13:18–30), and
the prediction of Peter’s denials (13:31–38).

Theme notes and profiles

Jesus’ Final Night John’s Profile of Discipleship Love in the Community of Christ Loving Others Social Justice The Ascension of Jesus

Events

Related verses

1 John 4:20–21
If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
1 John 2:10
Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause of stumbling in him.
1 John 3:10–14
By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.
John 17:21
…that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
1 John 2:5
But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:
Acts 4:32–35
The multitude of believers was one in heart and soul. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they owned.
Genesis 13:7–8
And there was discord between the herdsmen of Abram and the herdsmen of Lot. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in the land.
Acts 5:12–14
The apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people, and with one accord the believers gathered together in Solomon’s Colonnade.

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