<p>15:25- see on 1 Cor. 11:20.</p><p><em>All this happens so that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law: They hated me without a cause</em>- &quot;Their law&quot; rather than 'God's law' is another reflection of how they had hijacked God's word and ways and turned it into their own religion; the feasts of the Lord and house of the Lord had become the feasts of the Jews, and the temple of the Jews. &ldquo;They hated me without a cause&quot; (Ps. 35:19; 69:4) surely refers to their crucifixion of Him &ldquo;without a cause&quot; as reflected in the collapse of the legal case against Him. Their own law &quot;their law&quot; admitted there was no cause for death. He died purely because of their hatred. He again seems to use the past tense to describe His yet future death. There men would see the Father and Son, which has to be connected with John&rsquo;s recurring theme that in the cross men saw what Moses so wanted to see- Yahweh Himself manifested.</p><p>The Messianic Psalms quoted about hatred of the Lord without a cause imply that this hatred was especially seen in His death. And yet the Lord has said that our sharing in His Spirit will mean that we too shall be hated if we witness &quot;in Him&quot;, in His Name. This means that in our experience of opposition and hatred, we are sharing in His crucifixion experiences. He there becomes each of us. He was indeed our representative, and we are His too. Our experiences therefore provide a bridge between Him there, many centuries ago, and us today. We thereby in an experiential sense come to &quot;know Him&quot;, and Him in His time of crucifixion. And if we thus suffer with Him, we shall also live with Him, eternally.</p>