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John Gill
If the world hate you,.... After our Lord had signified how much he loved his disciples and what great things he had done for them, he faithfully acquaints them with the world's hatred of them, and what they must expect to meet with from that quarter, and says many things to fortify their minds against it; his words do not imply any doubt about it, but he rather takes it for granted, as a thing...
Matthew Henry
It is generally agreed that Christ's discourse in this and the next chapter was at the close of the last supper, the night in which he was betrayed, and it is a continued discourse, not interrupted as that in the foregoing chapter was; and what he chooses to discourse of is very pertinent to the present sad occasion of a farewell sermon. Now that he was about to leave them, I. They would be...
Charles H. Spurgeon
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. So you need not be at all surprised if the world hates you.
Charles H. Spurgeon
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. It is no new thing for the ungodly to hate the godly, so let us not be surprised if that is our portion.
Charles H. Spurgeon
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. That is what you have reason to expect, and you may feel honoured if they treat you as they have treated your Lord.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. These things I command you, that ye love one another. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but...