SEV Biblia, Chapter 15:15
Ya no os dir siervos, porque el siervo no sabe lo que hace su seor; mas os he dicho amigos, porque todas las cosas que oí de mi Padre, os las he hecho notorias.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - John 15:15
Verse 15. Henceforth I call you not servants] Which he at least indirectly had done, chap. xiii. 16; Matt. x. 24, 25; Luke xvii. 10. I have called you friends] I have admitted you into a state of the most intimate fellowship with myself; and have made known unto you whatsoever I have heard from the Father, which, in your present circumstances, it was necessary for you to be instructed in.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 15. Henceforth I call you not servants , etc.] As they and the rest of the people of God had been, under the legal dispensation; for though they were children, yet differed nothing from servants; and were very much influenced and impressed with a servile spirit, a spirit of bondage unto fear, being kept under tutors and governors by a severe discipline; but now Christ being come in the flesh, and being about to lay down his life, and make reconciliation for them, henceforward he would not use, treat, or account them as servants: for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth ; designs to do, or is about to do; he is not made privy to all his counsels and purposes; these are only opened to him as necessity requires; which was pretty much the case of the Old Testament church, who, comparatively speaking, were used as servants; and had not the knowledge of the mysteries of grace, and of the counsels of God, as they are now laid open under the Gospel dispensation: but I have called you friends ; that is, accounted, reckoned of them, used them as his friends and familiar acquaintance; whom he told all his mind unto, and would go on to treat them as such; by leading them more and more, as they were able to bear it, into the designs of his grace, and the doctrines of his Gospel: just as Abraham was called the friend of God, and proved to be so, by his not concealing from him the thing he was about to do: for all things I have heard of my Father, I have made known unto you ; not all that he knew as the omniscient God, for there was no necessity that all such things should be made known to them; but all things which he had delivered to him as man and Mediator, by his Father, respecting the salvation of men; all things which he himself was to do and suffer, in order to obtain eternal redemption; and the whole of the Gospel, as to the essential and substantial parts of it, they were to preach; for otherwise, there were some things which as yet they were not able to bear, and were reserved to another time, to be made known unto them by his Spirit.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 9-17 - Those whom God loves as a Father, may despise the hatred of all the world. As the Father loved Christ, who was most worthy, so he loved his disciples, who were unworthy. All that love the Saviour should continu in their love to him, and take all occasions to show it. The joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment, but the joy of those who abide in Christ's love is a continual feast. They are to show their love to his by keeping his commandments. If the same power that first shed abroa the love of Christ's in our hearts, did not keep us in that love, we should not long abide in it. Christ's love to us should direct us to love each other. He speaks as about to give many things in charge, ye names this only; it includes many duties.
Greek Textus Receptus
ουκετι 3765 ADV υμας 5209 P-2AP λεγω 3004 5719 V-PAI-1S δουλους 1401 N-APM οτι 3754 CONJ ο 3588 T-NSM δουλος 1401 N-NSM ουκ 3756 PRT-N οιδεν 1492 5758 V-RAI-3S τι 5101 I-ASN ποιει 4160 5719 V-PAI-3S αυτου 846 P-GSM ο 3588 T-NSM κυριος 2962 N-NSM υμας 5209 P-2AP δε 1161 CONJ ειρηκα 2046 5758 V-RAI-1S-ATT φιλους 5384 A-APM οτι 3754 CONJ παντα 3956 A-APN α 3739 R-APN ηκουσα 191 5656 V-AAI-1S παρα 3844 PREP του 3588 T-GSM πατρος 3962 N-GSM μου 3450 P-1GS εγνωρισα 1107 5656 V-AAI-1S υμιν 5213 P-2DP
Vincent's NT Word Studies
15. Henceforth - not (ouketi). Rev., better, no longer. No longer servants, as you were under the dispensation of the law. Compare Gal. iv. 7.Servants (doulouv). Strictly, bond-servants.
Knoweth not (ouk oide). Has no instinctive perception. See on ii. 24. You. The position of the pronoun in the Greek is emphatic: "You I have called friends."
