18If the world hates you, know that it has hated me first.19If you were of the world, the world would love its own; yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.20Remember the word that I spoke to you: a slave is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they kept my word, they will also keep yours.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 have no excuse for their sin.23Whoever 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 written in their law might be fulfilled: 'They hated me without cause.'26When the counsellor comes, whom I will send to you from the father—the spirit of truth who proceeds from the father—he will testify about me.27And you also must testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
Chapter 16
1I have told you these things so that you will not fall away.2They will put you out of the synagogues; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service to God.3They will do such things because they have not known the father or me.4I have told you these things so that when their time comes you will remember that I warned you about them. I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you.