The World Hates the Disciples

18 “If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you. 20 Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also. 21 But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 Whoever hates me hates my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works that no one else had done, they would have no sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. 25 But this has happened to fulfill what is written in their law: ‘They hated me for no reason.’

26 “When the Helper comes, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me. 27 You must also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

16 “I have said these things to you so that you will not fall away. 2 They will put you out of the synagogues; indeed, an hour is coming when anyone who kills you will think that he is offering service to God. 3 They will do these [fn]things because they have not known the Father or me. 4 But I have said these things to you so that when [fn]the hour comes you will remember that I said them to you. I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.