John 15:18–16:15

The World’s Hatred for the Disciples

¹⁸If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated^* you. ¹⁹If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you. ²⁰Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also. ²¹But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me. ²²If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin. But now they do not have a valid excuse for their sin. ²³The one who hates me hates my Father also. ²⁴If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin. But now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. ²⁵But this happened^* so that the word that is written in their law would be fulfilled, ‘They hated me without a reason.’

²⁶“When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father—that one will testify about me. ²⁷And you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

Persecution of Disciples Predicted

16“I have said these things to you so that you will not fall away. ²They will expel you from the synagogue,^a but an hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think they are offering service to God. ³And they will do these things because they do not know the Father or me. ⁴But I have said these things to you so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you about them.

Jesus’ Departure and the Coming of the Holy Spirit

“And I have not said these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. ⁵But now I am going away to the one who sent me, and none of you is asking me, ‘Where are you going?’ ⁶But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts. ⁷But I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I go away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. ⁸And when he^* comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and concerning righteousness and concerning judgment: ⁹concerning sin, because they do not believe in me, ¹⁰and concerning righteousness, because I am going away to the Father and you will see me no more, ¹¹and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.

¹²I still have many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them^* now. ¹³But when he—the Spirit of truth—comes, he will guide you into all the truth. For he will not speak from himself, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will proclaim to you the things to come. ¹⁴He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and will proclaim it^* to you. ¹⁵Everything that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he takes from what is mine and will proclaim it^* to you.