PERSECUTIONS PREDICTED

18 “If the world hatesm you, understand 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 chosenn you out of it, the world hates you. 20 Remember the word I spoke to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’o If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word,p they will also keep yours. 21 But they will do all these things to you on account of my name,q because they don’t knowr the one who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin.s Now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 The one who hates me also hates my Father.t 24 If I had not done the worksu among them that no one else has done,v they would not be guilty of sin.w Now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. 25 But this happened so that the statement written in their law might be fulfilled:x They hated me for no reason.C,y