Already ye are clean (ηδη υμεις καθαρο εστε). Potentially cleansed (Westcott) as in 13:10 which see and 17:19.

Now you are clean. Still keeping up the figure (katharoi). It does not mean that they were perfect, but that they had be…

Now ye are clean.—Better, Already are you clean. The pronoun is emphatic. “Already are you, as distinct from oth…

Now you are clean [purged] through the word which I have spoken to you.

The Word is often the knife with which the great Husbandman…

St. Hilary of Poitiers: He rises in haste to perform the sacrament of His final passion in the flesh (such is His desire to f…

“Clean” (GK 2754) recalls Jesus’ statement to the disciples at the footwashing (13:10), where he singled out Judas as one who was not clean. “Clean…

You are already clean, on account of the word. He reminds them that they have already experienced in themselves what he had said;…

Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken to
you .
]. These words being …

Jesus Christ is the Vine, the true Vine. The union of the human and Divine natures, and the fullness of the Spirit that is in Him, resemble the roo…

1. In this discourse, our Lord especially wants to comfort His disciples about two things. The first was near and present: His pa ion. The s…