Jesus said, “The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its works are evil” (John 7:7). We need to be careful not to rush past this. It’s all too easy to hear this simple sentence as religious jargon and move on without a moment’s thought. Let’s not do that. What was Jesus really saying here? Jesus was telling his brothers (James, Joses, Judas, and Simon according to Mark 6:3) that the world hated him but not them. What are we to make of this? Why did Jesus say the world hated him but not his brothers? Jesus said it’s because he testified against the evil
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