Bible Verse Lookup
Jn 13:34-35
Chapter 13
34
I give you a new commandment: Love one another! Just as I have loved you, you also must love one another.
35
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
I give you a new commandment: Love one another! Just as I have loved you, you also must love one another.
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Commentaries
Brotherly Love.
Love is, above all, a gift and revelation from Jesus Christ to his disciples, rather than a task and commandment (“I give you a commandment”). It belongs to him (this is “my” commandment). It is new not because of the time—the precept of brotherly love already existed in the Old Testament (Lv 19:17ff)—but because Jesus fills it with newness, because of its quality and characteristics: it is a love without measure, because he has loved us to the point of giving his life for us.