John 13:35
It is by this that everyone will recognise you as my disciples – by your loving one another.’
Open English Bible (UK)
In The King James Version
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
In Context
34I give you a new commandment – love one another; love one another as I have loved you.
Cross References
John 17:21that they all may be one – that as you, Father, are in union with us – and so the world may believe that you have sent me as your messenger.
Acts 5:12Many signs and wonders continued to occur among the people, through the instrumentality of the apostles, whose custom it was to meet all together in the Colonnade of Solomon;
1 John 2:10The person who loves others is always in the light, and there is nothing within them to cause them to stumble.
1 John 4:20If someone says “I love God,” and yet hates others, they are a liar. For the person who does not love their brother or sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.
Matthew Henry on John 13:32-36
Christ's Departure Predicted. 31 Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32 If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him. 33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you. 34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35 By… Read the whole commentary →