 hatred began to rise more and more. Along the way, they tried to kill him. And at times when they did, we read in the Gospels, his time was not yet. But then his time came, and he was delivered to be crucified. Just before that, as we record in John chapter 15, he said, they hated me without a cause. He said, if I had not spoken to them the words that I spoke, they would not have hated me. But now they hate both my father and me.