John Chapter 15 verse 25 Holy Bible

ASV John 15:25

But `this cometh to pass', that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
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BBE John 15:25

This comes about so that the writing in their law may be made true, Their hate for me was without cause.
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DARBY John 15:25

But that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, They hated me without a cause.
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KJV John 15:25

But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
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WBT John 15:25


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WEB John 15:25

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'
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YLT John 15:25

but -- that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law -- They hated me without a cause.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 25. - Strange is it that even here the ancient psalmist, in portraying the ideal Sufferer (Psalm 69:4; Psalm 35:19), bad seized this feature, and thus anticipated the treatment of the Son of God. But this cometh to pass (some clause of this kind must be introduced to give true force to ἀλλὰ and ἵνα) that the word might be fulfilled that has been written in their Law. Not only here but elsewhere Jesus speaks of the Psalms as a part of the Law (see note, John 10:34). Other passages may, from their similarity, have been in Christ's mind, as receiving fulfillment or abundant illustration in their conduct. The use of the expression, "the Law," has been pressed by many as proof that the writer of this Gospel did not regard himself as a Jew at all. Such numerous indications occur of the opposite conclusion, that this expression must receive the more rational interpretation - the Law in which they pride themselves, the Law which is ever in their mouths, the Law which itself contains the portraiture of their spirit: They hated me gratuitously; causelessly. The true Christ was, when he came, the object of reason-less, causeless hate and opposition. Jesus knew, when he claimed to be the Christ, that he would have to complete and fulfill the solemn portraiture of the suffering, burden-bearing, and rejected Christ, as well as that of the triumphant Christ and King.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(25) But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled . . .--The words in italics are not found in the original, but they rightly complete the sense. For the phrase, "might be fulfilled," comp. Notes on John 12:38; John 13:18.That is written in their law.--Comp. Note on John 10:34.They hated me without a cause.--The passage immediately referred to is probably that of the Messianic Psalm (69:4). The words are found also in Psalm 35:19 (see marg. ref.), and less distinctly in Psalm 109:3; Psalm 119:161. (Comp. especially Note on the quotation from this same Psalm in John 2:17.) . . .