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An Indivisible Union
Commentators unanimously stress that Jesus and the Father are inextricably linked. As Albert Barnes and the Expositor's Bible Commentary note, their union is so complete that one cannot be accepted or rejected without the other. To hate Jesus is, by definition, to hate the Father whom He perfectly reveals.
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Albert Barnes
On John 15:23
18th Century
Theologian
He that hateth me, etc. To show them that this was no slight crime, he reminds them that a rejection of himself is also a rejection of God…
AT Robertson
On John 15:23
My Father also (κα τον πατερα μου). Because Christ reveals God (14:9) and to dishonour Christ is to dishonour God (5:23). The comi…
Charles Ellicott
On John 15:23
19th Century
Bishop
He that hateth me hateth my Father also.—Compare Note on John 5:23, and John 15:18 in this context. Again the darkness of…
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Charles Spurgeon
On John 15:23–26
19th Century
Preacher
He that hateth me hateth my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have th…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On John 15:23
The connection between Jesus and the Father appears as strongly in this passage as it did in the argument of ch. 5. He and the Father belong in the…
John Calvin
On John 15:23
16th Century
Theologian
He who hateth me hateth my Father also. This is a remarkable passage, which teaches us that no one can hate the doctrine of the Gospel wit…
John Gill
On John 15:23
17th Century
Pastor
He that hates me, hates my Father also. The hatred the world bears to the followers of Christ, is interpretatively hatred…
Matthew Henry
On John 15:18–25
17th Century
Minister
How little do many people think, that in opposing the doctrine of Christ as our Prophet, Priest, and King, they prove themselves ignorant of the on…