John 15:18–27

PERSECUTIONS PREDICTED

¹⁸“If the world hates^m you, understand that it hated me before it hated you. ¹⁹If 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. ²⁰Remember 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. ²¹But they will do all these things to you on account of my name,^q because they don’t know^r the one who sent me. ²²If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin.^s Now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³The one who hates me also hates my Father.^{t 24}If I had not done the works^u 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. ²⁵But this happened so that the statement written in their law might be fulfilled:^x They hated me for no reason.^Ay

THE COUNSELOR’S MINISTRY

²⁶“When the Counselor^z comes, the one I will send to you from the Father^aa—the Spirit of truth^ab who proceeds from the Father—he will testify about me. ²⁷You also will testify,^ac because you have been with me from the beginning.