THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN - Chapter 15 - Verse 25
Verse 25. In their law, Ps 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 respecting his enemies would express, also, the conduct of the
Jews and their treatment of the Messiah. In both cases it was without
cause. Jesus had broken no law, he had done no injury to his country
or to any individual. It is still true that sinners hate him in the
same way. He injures no one, but, amid all their hatred, he seeks their
welfare; and, while they reject him in a manner for which they
can give no reason in the day of judgment, he still follows them with
mercies and entreats them to return to him. Who has ever had any reason
to hate the Lord Jesus? What injury has he ever done to any one of
the human race? What evil has he ever said or thought of any one of them?
What cause or reason had the Jews for putting him to death? What reason
has the sinner for hating him now? What reason for neglecting him? No
one can give a reason for it that will satisfy his own conscience, none
that has the least show of plausibility. Yet no being on earth has ever
been more hated, despised, or neglected, and in every instance it has
been "without a cause." Reader, do you hate him? If so, I ask you
WHY? Wherein has he injured you? or why should you think or speak
reproachfully of the benevolent and pure Redeemer?
{c} "They hated me without cause" Ps 35:19; 69:4
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