John 13:17

KJV

If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

— John 13:17, King James Version
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研读注释

Study Note

The beatitude 'if ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them' follows the foot-washing episode and establishes a consistent Johannine theme: knowledge without obedient practice produces no blessing. The conditional structure ('if... if...') introduces a double requirement — correct understanding ('know') and active implementation ('do') — preventing both intellectual detachment from lived discipleship and unreflective activism divorced from theological grounding. The Greek 'makarioi' (blessed, happy) echoes the Beatitudes of Matthew 5 and the sapiential blessedness of Psalm 1:1, locating genuine human flourishing in the pattern of servanthood that Jesus has demonstrated. James 1:22-25 develops the same knowing-doing unity with the 'doer of the word, not hearer only' argument.

其他译本

ASV

If ye know these things, blessed are ye if ye do them.

YLT

if these things ye have known, happy are ye, if ye may do them;

BBE

If these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them.

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