But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
But [this cometh to pass], that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law ( ), They hated me without a cause. The New Testament references to this Messianic psalm of suffering are numerous (see ; ; Romans 11:9; ), and this one, as here used, is very striking.
Verse John 15:25. _WRITTEN IN THEIR LAW_] John 10:34. These words are taken from Psalms 69:4. This psalm is applied to Christ, John 2:17;...
IN THEIR LAW - Psalms 35:19. All the Old Testament was sometimes called the law. The meaning here is that the same thing happened to him which did to the psalmist. The same words which David used resp...
CHAPTER 15 1. The Vine and the Branch. (John 15:1 .) 2. Communion with Him and its Conditions.(John 15:9 .) 3. Love One Another! and the Hatred of the World. (John 15:17 .) Israel is called a vine...
JOHN 15. THE VINE. The relation of the following Chapter s to 14 has been discussed. The Parœ mia, or parable-like discourse, reminds us of the parable or metaphor of the Good Shepherd in ch. 10. Two...
THEY HATED ME WITHOUT. CAUSE. He had just stated that "they hated both him and his Father." This hatred was without any justifiable cause, and therefore fulfilled of Psalms 35:19. "These words (Christ...
THE VINE AND THE BRANCHES (John 15:1-10)...
"If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have no excuse for their sins. He who hates me hates the Father too. If I had not done deeds among them, which no...
FULFILLED. See note on "full" in John 15:11. THEIR LAW. Compare John 8:17. THEY HATED, &c. Quoted from Psalms 35:19 with Psalms 69:4
The Hatred of the World to both Him and them In strong contrast to the love and union between Christ and His disciples and among the disciples themselves is the hatred of the world to Him and them. H...
_in their law_ -Law" is used in the wide sense for the O.T. generally. Comp. John 10:34; John 12:34; John 15:25; Romans 3:19. _without a cause_ The pass
THE HATRED OR THE WORLD TO BOTH HIM AND THEM In strong contrast to the love and union between Christ and His disciples and among the disciples themselves is the hatred of the world to Him and them. He...
Τ. ΝΌΜΦ. In the wide sense for the O. T. as a whole (John 10:34; John 12:34; Romans 3:19). The passage may be from Psalms 69:4 or...
VER 22. IF I HAD NOT COME AND SPOKEN TO THEM, THEY HAD NOT HAD SIN: BUT NOW THEY HAVE NO CLOAK FOR THEIR SIN. 23. HE THAT HATES ME HATES MY FATHER ALSO. 24. IF I HAD NOT DONE AMONG THEM THE WORKS WHIC...
ΠΛΗΡΩΘΉ _aor. conj. pass. от_ ΠΛΗΡΌΩ (G4137) выполнять, ΓΕΓΡΑΜΜΈΝΟΣ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΓΡΆΦΩ (G12)/> писать, ΈΜΊΣΗΣΆΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΜΙΣΈΩ, _см._ John 15:18. ΔΩΡΕΆΝ (G1432) без причины....
THAT THE WORD MIGHT BE FULFILLED— "Be not surprised that I, who am the Messiah, have been rejected of the Jews: it has happened according to the prediction of their own prophets, and particularly that...
PERSEVERING UNION OF THE PERSECUTED _Text 15:18-27_ 18 If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before it hated you. 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but be...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 15:17-27 The following is an Analysis of the closing section of John 15:— A loving heart would feign discover or induce love everywhere. To be ungratified in th...
12 As the Lord had explained in His kingdom proclamation, the whole law was included in the one word, love. Love to God and love to man is far more than all the precepts of the law. So, in His final c...
15:25 cause. (g-17) 'Gratuitously,' 'freely,' 'for nothing,' Psalms 35:19 and 69.4....
THEIR LAW] i.e. their Scriptures (see John 10:34). The passage alluded to is Psalms 69:4 : cp. Psalms 35:11. David is the person hated, but David's case is typical of Christ's. 26, 27. The Witness of...
THE WORLD'S HATRED] cp. the similar predictions, Matthew 10:16; Matthew 24:9; Luke 21:12; Luke 21:16 cp. also...
THE TRUE YINE. THE WITNESS OF THE COMFORTER AND OF THE APOSTLES 1-17. The allegory of the True Vine and its interpretation. The metaphor of 'the vine' was suggested by 'the fruit of the vine' which ha...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 15 JESUS TEACHES ABOUT THE *VINE AND THE BRANCHES 15:1-17 V1 Then Jesus said, ‘I am like the perfect *vine. My *Father...
BUT THIS COMETH TO PASS, THAT THE WORD MIGHT BE FULFILLED... — The words in italics are not found in the original, but they rightly complete the sense. For the phrase, “might be fulfilled,” comp. Note...
XIV. _ THE SPIRIT CHRIST'S WITNESS._ "If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated Me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the w...
This almost incredible blindness and obduracy is accounted for, as in John 12:37, by the purpose of God disclosed in O.T. Scripture. “Their law” is here, as in John 10:34, etc., used of O.T. Scripture...
_The relation of the disciples to the world_....
SUFFERING FOR JESUS' SAKE John 15:17-27 We have been appointed for the one purpose of bearing imperishable fruit, but our holy service to the world will never be appreciated. The world has its own go...
Our Lord now uttered the great allegory of the vine. Certain words in it arrest our attention, "the vine," "the branches," "the fruit." The close interrelationship between these is emphasized, and our...
But [this cometh to pass], that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their (e) law, They hated me without a cause. (e) Sometimes this word "law" refers to the five books of Moses, but in th...
CHAPTER 23 THE VALEDICTORY SERMON John 14-16. Now that the Passover meal has been enjoyed, and that celebrated Mosaic institution totally eclipsed by bloody Calvary, normally verified and abolished f...
“ _But they will do all this to you for my name's sake, because they know not him who sent me._ 22. _If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for...
VER. 25. ᾿Αλλά : “ _But_ there is nothing astonishing in this.” The righteous man of the old covenant had already complained by the mouth of David (Psalms 35:19; Psa 69:5) of being the object of the _...
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. (10) If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his lov...
In John 15:1-27 our Lord substitutes Himself for Israel, as the plant of God, responsible to bear fruit for Him on earth (not merely for man, as such, openly sinful and lost). He takes the place of th...
25._But that the word may be fulfilled. _What is contrary to nature appears to be incredible. But nothing is more contrary to reason than to hate God; and, therefore, Christ says that so great was the...
The beginning of this chapter, and that which relates to the vine, belongs to the earthly portion to that which Jesus was on earth to His relationship with His disciples as on the earth, and does not...
BUT THIS COMETH TO PASS,.... This hatred against Christ, and which is pointed at his people for his sake, and reaches to the Father also on his account, is suffered to be, and therefore should be pati...
But _this cometh to pass_, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause. Ver. 25. _They hated me without a cause_] So they dealt by David, so by Christ...
_If I had not done among them_, &c. If I had wrought no miracle at all among them; nay, if I had not done such extraordinary works as no other man ever did, not even their prophets, or Moses himself;...
THEIR LAW; PSALMS 35:19; Psalms 69:4; Psalms 109:3....
The hatred of the world and the testimony of the Spirit:...
BUT THIS COMETH TO PASS THAT THE WORD MIGHT BE FULFILLED THAT IS WRITTEN IN THEIR LAW, THEY HATED ME WITHOUT A CAUSE....
THE MINISTRY OF EXHORTATION CHRIST THE TRUE VINE (vs.1-8) The Lord's ministry of comfort, or of binding up, has been seen in chapter 14. Now in chapter 15 it is that of stirring up, or of exhortatio...
18-25 How little do many persons think, that in opposing the doctrine of Christ as our Prophet, Priest, and King, they prove themselves ignorant of the one living and true God, whom they profess to w...
The particle _that_ here again denotes not the final cause, but only the consequent; and the _law_ here signifieth not strictly the law of Moses, but the whole Scripture, in which sense we have once a...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V ,"[375]...
John 15:25 But G235 that G2443 word G3056 fulfilled G4137 (G5686) written G1125 (G5772) in G1722 their...
“But this is so that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause' (Psalms 35:19; Psalms 69:4).” Here we have the continual testimony of sacred history. That...
3). THE DISCIPLES MUST NOT BE SURPRISED IF THEY ARE HATED BY THE WORLD (JOHN 15:18)....
John 15:25. BUT THIS COMETH TO PASS, THAT THE WORD MAY BE FULFILLED THAT IS WRITTEN IN THEIR LAW, THEY HATED ME WITHOUT A CAUSE. The quotation is in all probability from Psalms 69:4, with which Psalms...
We have already considered the circumstances under which the two Chapter s upon which we now enter were spoken; and, if we have been correct in the view taken of them, we are not to imagine that the f...
BUT THIS COMETH TO PASS (αλλ'). Ellipsis in the Greek (no verb), as in John 9:3; John 13:18.IN THEIR LAW (εν τω νομω αυτων). Cf. John 8:17; John 10:34...
John 15:1. _I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman._ Not only the Mosaic law, but the whole creation is full of types of Christ. All the vines that we see in this world are only as it we...
Many of you know the words of this chapter by heart; you could repeat them without a mistake. May the savor of them abide in your hearts even as the letter of them abides in your memory! John 15:1. _...
John 15:9. _As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you:_ Oh, drink this nectar down! It is as when Cleopatra dissolved the pearl into a single draught; for here is the choicest pearl of truth t...
John 15:12. _This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you._ O beloved, do keep this commandment! Overlook each other's infirmities. Bear with each other's faults. Love one an...
CONTENTS: Jesus' discourse on the vine and the branches. The believer and the world. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, disciples. CONCLUSION: Jesus is the true vine, in which the life of believers, as abiding...
John 15:1. _I am the true vine._ The vine through every age had designated the Hebrew church; here the Lord employs it to designate the Christian church, of which he is the head, and the source of lif...
THEY HATED ME FOR NO REASON AT ALL. The "sin of sins" is to reject Jesus. Because he came, he could be rejected. Those who rejected Christ would find no way to escape from the guilt of their rejection...
_But all these things will they do unto you_ THE WORLD’S HATRED, AS CHRIST SAW IT I. THE WORLD’S IGNORANCE (John 15:21). “The world,” in Christ’s language, is the aggregate of Godless men. There is n...
_If the world hate you_ KOSMOS: UNREGENERATE HUMANITY is here presented. I. AS GLOWING WITH HATE. 1. It was a hatred of goodness. To hate the mean, the selfish, the false, the dishonest, and moral...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 15:25 Compare Psalms 35:19; Psalms 69:4....
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 15:18. IF THE WORLD HATE YOU, ETC.—He now directs the attention of the disciples to their relation toward the world. Christ _loves_ His disciples, the world _hat...
EXPOSITION JOHN 15:1 (7) _The parable of the vine and its branches_._ Incorporation of the disciples into one personality with himself_._ _The image of the vine may have been suggested by some visib...
Tonight let's turn now to John's gospel chapter 15, as we follow Jesus in His last hours prior to the cross. Jesus had been at the last supper with His disciples there in the upper room somewhere in J...
2 Corinthians 11:7; 2 Thessalonians 3:8; Galatians 2:21; John 10:34;...
Without a cause [δ ω ρ ε α ν]. Gratuitously. Akin to didwmi, to give. Their hatred was a voluntary gift....
Psalms 69:4....