¹⁷ This is my command: Love each other.^(A)

The World Hates the Disciples

¹⁸ “If the world hates you,^(B) keep in mind that it hated me first. ¹⁹ If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you^(C) out of the world. That is why the world hates you.^{(D) 20} Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’^[a](E) If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also.^(F) If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. ²¹ They will treat you this way because of my name,^(G) for they do not know the one who sent me.^{(H) 22} If I had not come and spoken to them,^(I) they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.^{(J) 23} Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. ²⁴ If I had not done among them the works no one else did,^(K) they would not be guilty of sin.^(L) As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law:^(M) ‘They hated me without reason.’^[b](N)

The Work of the Holy Spirit

²⁶ “When the Advocate^(O) comes, whom I will send to you from the Father^(P)—the Spirit of truth^(Q) who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.^{(R) 27} And you also must testify,^(S) for you have been with me from the beginning.^(T)

16 “All this^(U) I have told you so that you will not fall away.^{(V) 2} They will put you out of the synagogue;^(W) in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God.^(X)