¹⁶ You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and your fruit should remain, in order that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you. ¹⁷ These things I command you: that you love one another.

The World’s Hatred for the Disciples

¹⁸ If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated^[a] you.