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The Reason for the World's Hatred
Commentators unanimously agree that the world's hatred for Jesus stems directly from His testimony against its sin. As Charles Ellicott notes, light exposes darkness, and those who love darkness inevitably hate the light. Jesus's message revealed the evil in the world's actions and motives, creating an unavoidable antagonism.
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Albert Barnes
On John 7:7
18th Century
Theologian
The world cannot hate you. You profess no principles in opposition to the world. You do not excite its envy or rouse the civil rulers agai…
AT Robertson
On John 7:7
Cannot hate (ου δυνατα μισειν). Because of "the law of moral correspondence" (Westcott), often in John for "inherent impossibility…
Charles Ellicott
On John 7:7
19th Century
Bishop
The world cannot hate you.—Because they were of the world. To have hated them would have been to have hated itself ().
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Charles Spurgeon
On John 7:6–7
19th Century
Preacher
But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up h…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On John 7:7
Again Jesus asserted that he did not belong to this world. The world regarded him as an alien and an antagonist because he condemned its evil works…
John Calvin
On John 7:7
16th Century
Theologian
The world cannot hate you. When He says that the world cannot hate them, He reproves them for being entirely carnal; for peace wi…
John Gill
On John 7:7
17th Century
Pastor
The world cannot hate you
Because they were of the world, belonged to it; they were like to it, and every like loves…
Matthew Henry
On John 7:1–13
17th Century
Minister
The brothers or kinsmen of Jesus were disgusted when they found there was no prospect of worldly advantages from him. Ungodly men sometimes underta…