John Chapter 15 verse 8 Holy Bible
Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and `so' shall ye be my disciples.
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Here is my Father's glory, in that you give much fruit and so are my true disciples.
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In this is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, and ye shall become disciples of mine.
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Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
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"In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.
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`In this was my Father glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye shall become my disciples.
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John 15 : 8 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - Here the Lord shows what he knows will be and must be the dominant desire of the man who abides in himself, in whom his own word abides. Such a man will seek, yearn, ask, that he should bear much fruit. This prayer will be heard, and in this sublime synthesis between Christ and his disciples, says Christ, was my Father glorified. "In the fruitfulness of the vine is the glory of the husbandman," and in the answer of your prayers, and the regulation of all your desires, so ye shall become my disciples. "Discipleship" is a very large word, never altogether realized. Just as faith leads to faith, and love to love, and light to light, so does discipleship to discipleship. As Bengel says, discipleship is the fundamentum et fastigium of Christianity. On earth the vine reveals itself in the branches, and thus conceals itself behind them. "This explains why the diffusion of spiritual life makes such slow progress in the world - the Vine effects nothing but by means of the branches, and these so often paralyze instead of promoting the action of the Vine" (Godet). If the other text be maintained, Herein was my Father glorified, so that ye might bear much fruit, and that ye may become my disciples, the "herein" points back to the previous verse, and then the contemplated result of the arrangement, rather than the purpose of the glory, is the matter referred to.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) Herein is my Father glorified.--This clause is generally understood of the words which follow as it is taken in our English version, but the rendering is liable to the objection that it gives a forced meaning to the word "that" (???), which is properly used to express purpose. We may here (as in John 4:37; John 16:30) take "herein" to refer to the words which have gone before. By so doing we give a natural meaning to the words, and get a satisfactory sense for the sentence. The thought then will be, "In this doing whatever ye ask, my Father is glorified, in order that ye may bear much fruit, and that ye may become my disciples."So shall ye be my disciples.--Better, and may become My disciples. The pronoun is strongly emphatic. The living union with Christ, which made all their prayers, prayers in His name, and prayers which He would answer, and made them abound with fruit to the glory of God, was the characteristic which marked them as His true disciples.