John 15:25

John 15:25

23 ^aHe who hates Me hates My Father also.

24 If I had not done among them ^athe works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have ^bseen and also hated both Me and My Father.

25 But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, ^a‘They hated Me without a cause.’

The Coming Rejection

26 ^a“But when the¹ Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, ^bHe will testify of Me.

27 And ^ayou also will bear witness, because ^byou have been with Me from the beginning.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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But this cometh to pass (all). Ellipsis in the Greek (no verb), as in John 9:3; John 13:18.

In their law (en tw nomw autwn). Cf. John 8:17; John 10:34 for this standpoint. "Law" (nomov) here is for the whole of Scripture as in John 12:34. The allusion is to Psalms 69:4 (or Psalms 35:19). The hatred of the Jews toward Jesus the promised Messiah (John 1:11) is "part of the mysterious purpose of God" (Bernard) as shown by ina plhrwqh (first aorist passive subjunctive of plhrow, to fulfil).

Without a cause (dwrean). Adverbial accusative of dwrea from didwmi, gratuitously, then unnecessarily or gratis (in two Koin‚ tablets, Nageli) as here and Galatians 2:21.

**Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 15:25:**

John 1:8
John 10:34
John 12:34
John 13:18
John 14:31
1 John 2:19

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