Anthony van Dyck (ca. 1618)
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Once again, Jesus doesn’t teach salvation by faith alone, but commands his disciples to love — and plainly indicates, by mentioning the most humanly demanding of all acts (surrendering one’s life for something/someone else), that such love is expressed by action.
He then proceeds to speak of his disciples’ duty to obey his commandments, and of his having chosen them with the expectation that they will produce results.
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