John 15

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.” Naming Father keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it…” Naming Every keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.” The line’s distinctive content terms include clean, word. Its relationship to verses 2 and 4 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye…” Naming Abide keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for…” The line’s distinctive content terms include abideth, branches, bringeth. Its relationship to verses 4 and 6 shows what work it does in this passage.

“If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the…” The line’s distinctive content terms include abide, branch, burned. Its relationship to verses 5 and 7 shows what work it does in this passage.

“If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.” Naming Father keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.” The line’s distinctive content terms include full, remain. Its relationship to verses 10 and 12 shows what work it does in this passage.

“This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.” The number one makes the report concrete. Ask whether it measures time, people, distance, repetition, or completeness before deciding what weight it carries.

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” Naming Greater keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.” The line’s distinctive content terms include command, friends. Its relationship to verses 13 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends…” Naming Father and Henceforth keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“These things I command you, that ye love one another.” The number one makes the report concrete. Ask whether it measures time, people, distance, repetition, or completeness before deciding what weight it carries.

“If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.” The line’s distinctive content terms include hated, hate, know. Its relationship to verses 17 and 19 shows what work it does in this passage.

“If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out…” The line’s distinctive content terms include world, chosen, hateth. Its relationship to verses 18 and 20 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they…” Naming Remember keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.” The line’s distinctive content terms include know, name’s, sake. Its relationship to verses 20 shows what work it does in this passage.

“If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.” The line’s distinctive content terms include cloke. Its relationship to verses 23 shows what work it does in this passage.

“He that hateth me hateth my Father also.” Naming Father keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and…” Naming Father keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.” The line’s distinctive content terms include cause, cometh, fulfilled. Its relationship to verses 24 and 26 shows what work it does in this passage.

“But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.