Juan 15:15

Filipino Cebuano Bible

15 Dili ko na kamo nganlan nga mga ulipon, kay ang ulipon dili masayud sa ginabuhat sa iyang agalon. Apan ginganlan ko kamo nga mga higala, kay ang tanan nga nadungog ko gikan sa akong Amahan, kini gipahibalo ko man kaninyo.

Bible Verse Review
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I call: John 15:20, John 12:26, John 13:16, John 20:17, Galatians 4:6, Philemon 1:16, James 1:1, 2 Peter 1:1, Jude 1:1, Revelation 1:1

friends: James 2:23

all: John 4:19, John 17:6-8, John 17:26, Genesis 18:17-19, 2 Kings 6:8-12, Psalms 25:14, Amos 3:7, Matthew 13:11, Luke 10:23, Acts 20:27, Romans 16:25, Romans 16:26, 1 Corinthians 2:9-12, Ephesians 1:9, Ephesians 3:5, Colossians 1:26, 1 Peter 1:11

Reciprocal: Exodus 33:11 - his friend Numbers 12:8 - dark speeches Deuteronomy 18:18 - he shall Deuteronomy 29:29 - secret Judges 13:23 - he have showed 1 Samuel 9:27 - Bid the servant 1 Samuel 20:2 - show it me 1 Kings 1:27 - and thou 1 Kings 4:5 - the king's 2 Kings 4:27 - hid it from me 2 Chronicles 6:16 - keep 2 Chronicles 9:2 - all 2 Chronicles 20:7 - thy friend Job 15:8 - the secret Proverbs 3:32 - his Proverbs 18:24 - there Song of Solomon 1:9 - O my Song of Solomon 5:1 - friends Isaiah 41:8 - my friend Isaiah 48:6 - showed Jeremiah 23:18 - counsel Daniel 2:23 - and hast Matthew 20:17 - took Luke 8:9 - What Luke 8:21 - My mother John 3:32 - what John 5:20 - and showeth John 8:26 - and I John 12:49 - General John 16:12 - yet John 16:23 - ask Romans 1:1 - a servant 1 Corinthians 2:16 - But Hebrews 1:2 - spoken

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Henceforth I call you not servants,.... As they and the rest of the people of God had been, under the legal dispensation; for though they were children, yet differed nothing from servants; and were very much influenced and impressed with a servile spirit, a spirit of bondage unto fear, being kept under tutors and governors by a severe discipline; but now Christ being come in the flesh, and being about to lay down his life, and make reconciliation for them, henceforward he would not use, treat, or account them as servants:

for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth; designs to do, or is about to do; he is not made privy to all his counsels and purposes; these are only opened to him as necessity requires; which was pretty much the case of the Old Testament church, who, comparatively speaking, were used as servants; and had not the knowledge of the mysteries of grace, and of the counsels of God, as they are now laid open under the Gospel dispensation:

but I have called you friends; that is, accounted, reckoned of them, used them as his friends and familiar acquaintance; whom he told all his mind unto, and would go on to treat them as such; by leading them more and more, as they were able to bear it, into the designs of his grace, and the doctrines of his Gospel: just as Abraham was called the friend of God, and proved to be so, by his not concealing from him the thing he was about to do:

for all things I have heard of my Father, I have made known unto you; not all that he knew as the omniscient God, for there was no necessity that all such things should be made known to them; but all things which he had delivered to him as man and Mediator, by his Father, respecting the salvation of men; all things which he himself was to do and suffer, in order to obtain eternal redemption; and the whole of the Gospel, as to the essential and substantial parts of it, they were to preach; for otherwise, there were some things which as yet they were not able to bear, and were reserved to another time, to be made known unto them by his Spirit.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I call you not servants - This had been the common title by which he addressed them Matthew 10:24-25; John 12:26; John 13:13; but he had also before this, on one occasion, called them friends Luke 12:4, and on one occasion after this he called them servants, John 15:20. He here means that the ordinary title by which he would hence forth address them would be that of friends.

The servant knoweth not ... - He receives the command of his master without knowing the reason why this or that thing is ordered. It is one of the conditions of slavery not to be let into the counsels and plans of the master. It is the privilege of friendship to be made acquainted with the plans wishes, and wants of the friend. This instance of friendship Jesus had given them by making them acquainted with the reasons why he was about to leave them, and with his secret wishes in regard to them. As he had given their this proof of friendship, it was proper that he should not withhold from them the title of friends.

His lord - His Master.

I have called you friends - I have given you the name of friends. He does not mean that the usual appellation which he had given them had been than of friends, but that such was the title which he had now given them.

For all things ... - The reason why he called them friends was that he had now treated them as friends. He had opened to them his mind; made known his plans; acquainted them with the design of his coming, his death, his resurrection, and ascension; and, having thus given them the clearest proof of friendship, it was proper that he should give them the name.

That I have heard ... - Jesus frequently represents himself as commissioned or sent by God to accomplish an important work, and as being instructed by him in regard to the nature of that work. See the notes at John 5:30. By what he had heard of the Father, he doubtless refers to the design of God in his coming and his death. This he had made known to them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 15:15. Henceforth I call you not servants — Which he at least indirectly had done, John 13:16; Matthew 10:24-25; Luke 17:10.

I have called you friends — I have admitted you into a state of the most intimate fellowship with myself; and have made known unto you whatsoever I have heard from the Father, which, in your present circumstances, it was necessary for you to be instructed in.