John · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
John 15 Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
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Notes on this text (2)
- The Old Testament is translated from the Hebrew, not from the Septuagint read in the Orthodox Church; there are no deuterocanonical books.
- Katharevousa (learned 19th-century Greek), as in the CrossWire module (text from theword.gr).
1 Εγώ είμαι η άμπελος η αληθινή, και ο Πατήρ μου είναι ο γεωργός.
1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
2 Παν κλήμα εν εμοί μη φέρον καρπόν, εκκόπτει αυτό, και παν το φέρον καρπόν, καθαρίζει αυτό, διά να φέρη πλειότερον καρπόν.
2 Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
3 Τώρα σεις είσθε καθαροί διά τον λόγον τον οποίον ελάλησα προς εσάς.
3 You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
4 Μείνατε εν εμοί, και εγώ εν υμίν. Καθώς το κλήμα δεν δύναται να φέρη καρπόν αφ' εαυτού, εάν δεν μείνη εν τη αμπέλω, ούτως ουδέ σεις, εάν δεν μείνητε εν εμοί.
4 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
5 Εγώ είμαι η άμπελος, σεις τα κλήματα. Ο μένων εν εμοί και εγώ εν αυτώ, ούτος φέρει καρπόν πολύν, διότι χωρίς εμού δεν δύνασθε να κάμητε ουδέν.
5 I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
6 Εάν τις δεν μείνη εν εμοί, ρίπτεται έξω ως το κλήμα και ξηραίνεται, και συνάγουσιν αυτά και ρίπτουσιν εις το πυρ, και καίονται.
6 If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 Εάν μείνητε εν εμοί και οι λόγοι μου μείνωσιν εν υμίν, θέλετε ζητεί ό,τι αν θέλητε, και θέλει γείνει εις εσάς.
7 If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
8 Εν τούτω δοξάζεται ο Πατήρ μου, εις το να φέρητε καρπόν πολύν· και ούτω θέλετε είσθαι μαθηταί μου.
8 “In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.
9 Καθώς εμέ ηγάπησεν ο Πατήρ, και εγώ ηγάπησα εσάς· μείνατε εν τη αγάπη μου.
9 Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
10 Εάν τας εντολάς μου φυλάξητε, θέλετε μείνει εν τη αγάπη μου, καθώς εγώ εφύλαξα τας εντολάς του Πατρός μου και μένω εν τη αγάπη αυτού.
10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, even as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
11 Ταύτα ελάλησα προς εσάς διά να μείνη εν υμίν η χαρά μου και η χαρά υμών να ήναι πλήρης.
11 I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.
12 Αύτη είναι η εντολή μου, να αγαπάτε αλλήλους, καθώς σας ηγάπησα.
12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
13 Μεγαλητέραν ταύτης αγάπην δεν έχει ουδείς, του να βάλη τις την ψυχήν αυτού υπέρ των φίλων αυτού.
13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
14 Σεις είσθε φίλοι μου, εάν κάμνητε όσα εγώ σας παραγγέλλω.
14 You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.
15 Δεν σας λέγω πλέον δούλους, διότι ο δούλος δεν εξεύρει τι κάμνει ο κύριος αυτού· εσάς δε είπον φίλους, διότι πάντα όσα ήκουσα παρά του Πατρός μου, εφανέρωσα εις εσάς.
15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
16 Σεις δεν εξελέξατε εμέ, αλλ' εγώ εξέλεξα εσάς, και σας διέταξα διά να υπάγητε σεις και να κάμητε καρπόν, και ο καρπός σας να μένη, ώστε, ό,τι αν ζητήσητε παρά του Πατρός εν τω ονόματί μου, να σας δώση αυτό.
16 You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
17 Ταύτα σας παραγγέλλω, να αγαπάτε αλλήλους.
17 “I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
18 Εάν ο κόσμος σας μισή, εξεύρετε ότι εμέ πρότερον υμών εμίσησεν.
18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
19 Εάν ήσθε εκ του κόσμου, ο κόσμος ήθελεν αγαπά το ιδικόν του· επειδή όμως δεν είσθε εκ του κόσμου, αλλ' εγώ σας εξέλεξα εκ του κόσμου, διά τούτο σας μισεί ο κόσμος.
19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
20 Ενθυμείσθε τον λόγον, τον οποίον εγώ είπον προς εσάς· Δεν είναι δούλος μεγαλήτερος του κυρίου αυτού. Εάν εμέ εδίωξαν, και σας θέλουσι διώξει· εάν τον λόγον μου εφύλαξαν, και τον υμέτερον θέλουσι φυλάξει.
20 Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
21 Αλλά ταύτα πάντα θέλουσι κάμει εις εσάς διά το όνομά μου, διότι δεν εξεύρουσι τον πέμψαντά με.
21 But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.
22 Εάν δεν ήλθον και ελάλησα προς αυτούς, αμαρτίαν δεν ήθελον έχει· τώρα όμως δεν έχουσι πρόφασιν περί της αμαρτίας αυτών.
22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 Ο μισών εμέ και τον Πατέρα μου μισεί.
23 He who hates me, hates my Father also.
24 Εάν δεν έκαμον μεταξύ αυτών τα έργα, τα οποία ουδείς άλλος έκαμεν, αμαρτίαν δεν ήθελον έχει· αλλά τώρα και είδον και εμίσησαν και εμέ και τον Πατέρα μου.
24 If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.
25 Αλλά τούτο έγεινε διά να πληρωθή ο λόγος, ο γεγραμμένος εν τω νόμω αυτών, Ότι εμίσησάν με δωρεάν.
25 But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’
26 Όταν όμως έλθη ο Παράκλητος, τον οποίον εγώ θέλω πέμψει προς εσάς παρά του Πατρός, το Πνεύμα της αληθείας, το οποίον εκπορεύεται παρά του Πατρός, εκείνος θέλει μαρτυρήσει περί εμού.
26 “When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.
27 Αλλά και σεις μαρτυρείτε, διότι απ' αρχής μετ' εμού είσθε.
27 You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
Cross references (27)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 2:21; Isaiah 27:2–3; 1 Corinthians 3:9; Isaiah 60:21; Psalm 80:8–19
- 2 Matthew 3:10; Hebrews 12:10–11; Matthew 15:13; Revelation 3:19; John 15:8
- 3 John 17:17; Ephesians 5:26; 1 Peter 1:22; John 13:10
- 4 1 John 2:6; Galatians 2:20; John 8:31; 2 John 9; John 6:56
- 5 Philippians 4:13; Colossians 1:10; John 15:16; Galatians 5:22; Proverbs 11:30
- 6 Matthew 7:19; Hebrews 6:7–8; Matthew 13:41; John 15:2; Matthew 3:10
- 7 Psalm 37:4; 1 John 5:14; John 14:13; 1 John 3:22; John 15:16
- 8 Matthew 5:16; John 8:31; Philippians 1:11; 2 Corinthians 9:10–15; John 15:5
- 9 John 17:23–24; John 17:26; 1 John 2:28; Revelation 1:5; John 15:13
- 10 John 14:15; 1 John 5:3; 1 John 3:21–24; 1 John 2:5; 2 Peter 2:21
- 11 Romans 15:13; John 17:13; John 16:24; 1 Peter 1:8; 1 John 1:4
- 12 1 John 4:21; 1 Peter 4:8; John 13:34; Ephesians 5:2; Romans 12:10
- 13 John 10:11; Ephesians 5:2; Romans 5:6–8; John 10:15; 1 John 4:7–11
- 14 Matthew 12:50; 1 John 5:3; James 2:23; John 14:21; John 14:15
- 15 Psalm 25:14; 1 Corinthians 2:9–12; Matthew 13:11; James 2:23; Colossians 1:26
- 16 Jeremiah 1:5–7; John 15:19; Ephesians 2:10; 2 Timothy 3:15–17; 1 John 4:19
- 17 John 15:12; 1 John 3:14–17; 1 Peter 2:17
- 18 1 John 3:13; John 7:7; Luke 6:22; Mark 13:13; John 3:20
- 19 1 John 4:4–5; John 17:14–16; Ephesians 1:4–11; Titus 3:3–7; John 15:16
- 20 2 Timothy 3:12; John 13:16; Matthew 10:24; Ezekiel 3:7; 1 Corinthians 4:12
- 21 Matthew 10:22; John 16:3; John 8:19; Matthew 10:18; Matthew 24:9
- 22 John 9:41; James 4:17; Acts 17:30; Romans 1:20; John 12:48
- 23 John 8:40–42; 1 John 2:23; 2 John 9
- 24 John 14:9; John 5:36; John 10:32; John 7:31; John 10:37
- 25 Psalm 109:3; Psalm 69:4; Psalm 35:19; Luke 24:44; 2 Corinthians 11:7
- 26 John 14:26; John 14:16–17; John 16:13–15; Acts 5:32; Acts 2:32–33
- 27 1 John 4:14; John 21:24; Acts 10:39–42; Luke 24:48; Acts 23:11
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Jesus called Himself the vine, and His disciples the branches, and His Father the husbandman; whereon we have already discoursed as we were able.
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 14 (1889)
… Him, as He does Himself declare to His disciples: "I will not now call you servants, for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth; but I have called you friends, for all things which I have heard from My Father I have made known." For in that which He says, "I will not now call you servants," He indicates …
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
For "He will burn the chaff," saith he, "with unquenchable fire." Thou seest that He is Lord of all things, and that He is Himself the Husbandman; albeit in another place He calls His Father the same. For "My Father," saith He, "is the Husbandman." Thus, inasmuch as He had spoken of an axe, lest thou shouldest suppose that the …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)