John Wesley

Jesus answered, “It is the one to whom I give this morsel after I have dipped it.”

“Jesus answered - In his ear. So careful was he not to offend (if it had been possible) even Judas himself. The sop - Which he took up while he was speaking.”

And when Judas had taken the morsel, Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to Judas, “What you are about to do, do quickly.”

“What thou doest, do quickly - This is not a permission, much less a command. It is only as if he had said, If thou art determined to do it, why dost thou delay?”

As soon as he had received the morsel, Judas went out into the night.

“He went out - To the chief priests. But he returned afterward, and was with them when they ate the passover, Matt. xxvi, 20, though not at the Lord's Supper.”

When Judas had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him.

“Here the scene, as it were, is opened, for the discourse which is continued in the following chapters. Now - While I speak this, the Son of man is glorified - Being fully entered into his glorious work of redemption.”

A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.

“A new commandment - Not new in itself; but new in the school of Christ: for he had never before taught it them expressly. Likewise new, as to the degree of it, as I have loved you.”

“Lord, where are You going?” Simon Peter asked. Jesus answered, “Where I am going, you cannot follow Me now, but you will follow later.”

“Peter saith, Lord, whither goest thou? - St. Peter seems to have thought, that Christ, being rejected by the Jews, would go to some other part of the earth to erect his throne, where he might reign without disturbance, according to the gross notions he…”

“Will you lay down your life for Me?” Jesus replied. “Truly, truly, I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.

“The cock shall not have crowed - That is, cock crowing shall not be over, till thou hast denied me thrice - His three-fold denial was thrice foretold; first, at the time mentioned here; secondly, at that mentioned by St.”

“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe in Me as well.

“Let not your heart be troubled - At my departure. Believe - This is the sum of all his discourse, which is urged till they did believe, Chap. xvi, 30.”

In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?

“In my Father's house are many mansions - Enough to receive both the holy angels, and your predecessors in the faith, and all that now believe, and a great multitude, which no man can number.”

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

“To the question concerning knowledge, he answers, I am the truth. To the question whither, I am the life. The first is treated of in this verse; the second, ver. 7-17; the third, xiv, 18, &c.”

Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I am doing.

“Greater works than these shall he do - So one apostle wrought miracles merely by his shadow, Acts v, 15; another by handkerchiefs carried from his body, Acts xix, 12; and all spake with various tongues.”

the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him.

“The Spirit of truth - Who has, reveals, testifies, and defends the truth as it is in Jesus. Whom the world - All who do not love or fear God, cannot receive, because it seeth him not - Having no spiritual senses, no internal eye…”

I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

“I will not leave you orphans - A word that is elegantly applied to those who have lost any dear friend. I come to you - What was certainly and speedily to be, our Lord speaks of as if it were already.”

In a little while the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you also will live.

“But ye see me - That is, ye shall certainly see me. Because I live, ye shall live also - Because I am the living One in my Divine nature, and shall rise again in my human nature, and live for ever in heaven: therefore…”

Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

“My Father will love him - The more any man loves and obeys, the more God will love him. And we will come to him, and make our abode with him - Which implies such a large manifestation of the Divine presence and love, that…”

But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you.

“In my name - For my sake, in my room, and as my agent. He will teach you all things - Necessary for you to know.”

You heard Me say, ‘I am going away, and I am coming back to you.’

“God the Father is greater than I - As he was man. As God, neither is greater nor less than the other.”

I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming, and he has no claim on Me.

“The prince of this world is coming - To make his grand assault. But he hath nothing in me - No right, no claim, or power.”

But I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us go on from here.

“Arise, let us go hence - Into the city, to the passover. All that has been related from Chap. xii, 31, was done and said on Thursday, without the city.”

He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.

“Everyone that beareth fruit, he purifieth - by obeying the truth, 1 Pet. i, 22; and by inward or outward sufferings, Heb. xii, 10, 11. So purity and fruitfulness help each other.”

You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

“Ye are clean - All of you, to whom I now speak, are purged from the guilt and power of sin; by the word - Which, applied by the Spirit, is the grand instrument of purifying the soul.”

I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit.

“I am the vine, ye are the branches - Our Lord in this whole passage speaks of no branches but such as are, or at least were once, united to him by living faith.”

If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.

“If any one abide not in me - By living faith; not by Church communion only. He may thus abide in Christ, and be withered all the time, and cast into the fire at last.”

You are My friends if you do what I command you.

“Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you - On this condition, not otherwise. A thunderbolt for Antinomianism! Who then dares assert that God's love does not at all depend on man's works?”

If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you…

“Because ye are not of the world, therefore the world hateth you - Because your maxims, tempers, actions, are quite opposite to theirs. For the very same reason must the world in all ages hate those who are not of the world.”