John 17:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Given

John 17:8

The world

They

Bible References

Given

for the words which You gave Me I have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent Me.

The world

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

“If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her seed;

He shall bruise you on the head,

And you shall bruise him on the heel.”

An unjust man is abominable to the righteous,
And he who is upright in the way is abominable to the wicked.

Then I annihilated the three shepherds in one month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also was weary of me.

“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a slave above his master.

In all this, they are surprised that you do not run with them into the same excesses of dissipation, and they malign you;

not as Cain, who was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.

They

They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

And He was saying to them, “You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.

They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.

We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.