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Beloved, I am writing no new commandment to you but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard.(A)

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34 I give you a new commandment:[a] love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 13:34 I give you a new commandment: this puts Jesus on a par with Yahweh. The commandment itself is not new; cf. Lv 19:18 and the note there.

12 This is my commandment: love one another as I love you.(A)

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17 This I command you: love one another.(A)

The World’s Hatred.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 15:18–16:4 The hostile reaction of the world. There are synoptic parallels, predicting persecution, especially at Mt 10:17–25; 24:9–10.