Lesson: Christ's Sufferings Foretold
Reading: Hated without a cause
Reference: Ps. 69:4; John 15:20-25
Psalms 69:4: They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
John 15:20: Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
John 15:21: But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
John 15:22: If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
John 15:23: He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
John 15:24: If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
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.
(KJV)