Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
that the word might be fulfilled . . . They hated me without a cause—quoted from the Messianic Psalms 69:4, applied also in the same sense in John 2:17; Acts 1:20; Romans 11:9-10; Romans 15:3.
(See on John 9:39-41).
If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin—comparatively none; all other sins being light compared with the rejection of the Son of God.
now they have no cloak for their sin—rather, "pretext."
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing John 15:25:
Psalms 69:4
Jeremiah 18:20
Lamentations 3:52-54
Revelation 21:6
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