"They Hated Jesus Because He Told Them The Truth" is a classic internet meme originating from a religious comic panel illustrating a scene where Jesus is speaking and a crowd yells "Shut up!". The panel is captioned with "They hated Jesus because He told them the truth. Gal. 4:16." This meme gained significant traction in the mid-2010s. It is used to convey situations where an individual states an unpopular, often inconvenient, truth and is met with anger, rejection, or backlash from an audience unwilling to accept it. The speaker represents the truth-teller, while the angry crowd symbolizes those who prefer ignorance or denial. It's frequently employed to humorously highlight the frustration of delivering blunt, sometimes politically incorrect, observations to a resistant public.