“But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. John 15 contains 27 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.