²³ If someone despises Me, he also despises My Father. ²⁴ If I had not demonstrated things for them that have never been done, they would not be guilty of sin. But the reality is they have stared Me in the face, and they have despised Me and the Father nonetheless. ²⁵ Yet their law, which says, “They despised Me without any cause,”^[a] has again been proven true.