John 15:18–27

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.