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The world can`t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
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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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John
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
Cannot hate (ου δυνατα μισειν). Because of "the law of moral correspondence" (Westcott), often in John for "inherent impossibility…
19th Century
Anglican
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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Baptist
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…
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…
16th Century
Protestant
The world cannot hate you. When He says that the world cannot hate them, He reproves them for being entirely carnal; for peace wi…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The world cannot hate you Because they were of the world, belonged to it; they were like to it, and every like loves…
The brothers or kinsmen of Jesus were disgusted when they found there was no prospect of worldly advantages from him. Ungodly men sometimes underta…
13th Century
Catholic
After our Lord considered the spiritual life and its food, He now discusses His instruction or teaching, which, as mentioned above, is ne…
