15. He has referred to them as friends, and will do so in future. Formerly, indeed, He had referred to them as His servants (John xii. 26, xiii. 16), but now after He has taken them so fully into His confidence, told them of His speedy departure from them (xiii. 33), pointed out to them His consubstantiality with the Father (xiv. 7‐11), and instructed them that the Holy Ghost was to come to them (xiv. 16, 17), He will no longer speak of them as servants, but as friends. *All things whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you.* That is to say, all the knowledge which was communicated to Him, together with His Divine nature, in His eternal generation by the Father; all this, as far as they were capable (John xvi. 12), and it was useful for them, He had communicated to them. 16. Non vos me elegistis: sed 16. You have not chosen me: ego elegi vos et posui vos, ut but I have chosen you; and eatis, et fructum afferatis: have appointed you, that you et fructus vester maneat: ut should go, and should bring quodcumque petieritis Patrem forth fruit, and your fruit in nomine meo, det vobis. should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. 16. *You have not chosen me: but I have chosen you.* Or more exactly; “it was not you that chose Me, but I chose you,” where the aorist refers back to the definite act of selecting and calling the Apostles. Not only then was His love for them most intense, as was signified in verse 13, but it was also _gratuitous_, unmerited: and this is now pointed out. You did not choose Me as your friend, but I chose you as My special friends, My Apostles; and set you up as such, in order that you should go into the whole world (Mark xvi. 15). and bear fruit in yourselves and others, and that this fruit should remain unto eternal life. *That* (ἵνα) *whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you*. Some as Mald. and A Lap. take ἵνα here to denote a consequence: if you bring forth the fruit for which I have chosen you, _it will come to pass_ that whatsoever, &c. Others think ἵνα may retain its usual telic force: I appointed you in order that ... your fruit should remain, and that whatsoever _in reference to that fruit_ you shall ask, &c. On what is meant by asking the Father in Christ’s name, see above on xiv. 13. 17. Haec mando vobis, ut 17. These things I command diligatis invicem. you, that you love one another.