until the day He was taken up, after He had given orders through the Holy Spirit to the apostles He had chosen.

If anyone thinks he is a prophet or spiritual, he should recognize that what I write to you is the Lord’s command.

The one who has My commands and keeps them is the one who loves Me. And the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father. I also will love him and will reveal Myself to him.”

You are My friends if you do what I command you.

This is My command: Love one another as I have loved you.

This is what I command you: Love one another.

“I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must also love one another.

Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old command that you have had from the beginning. The old command is the message you have heard.

So now I urge you, dear lady—not as if I were writing you a new command, but one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.

Yet I am writing you a new command, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

Now this is His command: that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as He commanded us.

And this is love: that we walk according to His commands. This is the command as you have heard it from the beginning: you must walk in love.

For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

Then Jesus told him, “See that you don’t tell anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses prescribed, as a testimony to them.”

Then He sternly warned him and sent him away at once,

And their eyes were opened. Then Jesus warned them sternly, “Be sure that no one finds out!”

Then He ordered them to tell no one, but the more He would order them, the more they would proclaim it.

As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, “Don’t tell anyone about the vision until the Son of Man is raised from the dead.”

As they were coming down from the mountain, He ordered them to tell no one what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

And He gave the disciples orders to tell no one that He was the Messiah.

But He strictly warned and instructed them to tell this to no one,

Jesus sent out these 12 after giving them instructions: “Don’t take the road leading to other nations, and don’t enter any Samaritan town.

“Lord, if it’s You,” Peter answered Him, “command me to come to You on the water.”

Then they were all amazed, so they began to argue with one another, saying, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey Him.”

Jesus stopped and commanded that he be brought to Him. When he drew near, He asked him,

While He was together with them, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for the Father’s promise. “This,” He said, “is what you heard from Me;

He commanded us to preach to the people and to solemnly testify that He is the One appointed by God to be the Judge of the living and the dead.

so that you can remember the words previously spoken by the holy prophets and the command of our Lord and Savior given through your apostles.

When evening came, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. He drove out the spirits with a word and healed all who were sick,

And He would strongly warn them not to make Him known.