John 15:22

If I had not come and spoken unto them He had spoken as man had never spoken before (John 7:46), and His words sufficed to tell unprejudiced minds Who He was. Their hatred was a sin against light; if there had been no light, there would have been no sin. -To have sin" is a phrase peculiar to S. John (John 15:24; John 9:41; John 19:11; 1 John 1:8).

no cloke Better (with the margin), no excuse: not only have they sin, but they have sin without excuse. The same word is rendered -cloke," 1 Thessalonians 2:5. But the notion is not that of hiding, but of excusing what cannot be hid: -colour" (Acts 27:30) is a better rendering than -cloke." Comp. Psalms 140:4.

for their sin Literally, concerning their sin:comp. John 16:8.