21 They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me.
21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
21 But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
21 "They are going to do all these things to you because of the way they treated me, because they don't know the One who sent me.
21 But all these things they will do to you for My name's sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.
21 They will do all this to you because of me, for they have rejected the one who sent me.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on John 15:21
Commentary on John 15:18-25
(Read John 15:18-25)
How little do many persons think, that in opposing the doctrine of Christ as our Prophet, Priest, and King, they prove themselves ignorant of the one living and true God, whom they profess to worship! The name into which Christ's disciples were baptized, is that which they will live and die by. It is a comfort to the greatest sufferers, if they suffer for Christ's name's sake. The world's ignorance is the true cause of its hatred to the disciples of Jesus. The clearer and fuller the discoveries of the grace and truth of Christ, the greater is our sin if we do not love him and believe in him.