John 15:23

23 Hate me, hate my Father - it's all the same.

John 15:23 Meaning and Commentary

John 15:23

He that hateth me, hateth my Father also.
] The hatred the world bears to the followers of Christ, is interpretatively hatred to Christ himself; and hatred to Christ himself, is no other than hatred to his Father; and indeed, all the hatred that is shown by the men of the world to Christ, to his Gospel, and to his faithful ministers and followers, originally arises from that enmity, that is naturally in the heart of every unregenerate man against God: now since not only Christ, but the Father also, is hated by the world, the children of God and disciples of Christ may sit easier under all the resentment, frowns, and malice of the world.

John 15:23 In-Context

21 "They are going to do all these things to you because of the way they treated me, because they don't know the One who sent me.

22 If I hadn't come and told them all this in plain language, it wouldn't be so bad. As it is, they have no excuse.

23 Hate me, hate my Father - it's all the same.

24 If I hadn't done what I have done among them, works no one has ever done, they wouldn't be to blame. But they saw the God-signs and hated anyway, both me and my Father.

25 Interesting - they have verified the truth of their own Scriptures where it is written, 'They hated me for no good reason.'