Hatred: Christ Experienced

Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.

If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.

If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.

But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’