Abide in me (μεινατε εν εμο). Constative aorist active imperative of μενω. The only way to continue "clean" (pruned) and to bear f…

Abide in me. Remain united to me by a living faith. Live a life of dependence on me, and obey my doctrines, imitate my example, and consta…

Abide in me, and I in you.—The clauses are here connected as cause and effect. The second is the promise, which will not …

Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it …

St. John Chrysostom: Having said that they were clean through the word which He had spoken to them, He now taught them that th…

Continued production depends on constant union with the source of fruitfulness. Branches that are severed from the parent stock may produce leaves …

Abide in Me. He again exhorts them to be earnest and careful in keeping the grace which they had received, for the carelessness of the fle…

Abide in me, and I in you
The former of these is an exhortation to continue in the exercise of faith and love upon C…

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…