John 15:25

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 as a whole. αὐτῶν is inserted, as ὑμετέρῳ in John 8:17, to suggest that the very Scripture in which they had prided themselves would condemn them; see also John 5:45; John 5:39. The words ἐμίσησάν με δωρεάν do not occur in O.T.; but similar expressions are found in Psalms 34:19, οἱ μισοῦντές με δωρεάν, and Psalms 108:3, ἐπολέμησάν με δωρεάν. Entirely gratuitous was their hatred and rejection of Christ, so that they were inexcusable.