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katapi HOME John 15:18-16: - The World's Hatred  Jn.15.18-16.4 (Jerusalem)15 18 'If the world hates you, it hated me first, as you know well. 15 19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, because I have chosen you out of the world, for that reason the world hates you. 15 20 Remember what I said: "A servant is not greater than his master." As they persecuted me, they will persecute you; they will follow your teaching as little as they have followed mine. 15 21 It is on my account that they will treat you thus, because they do not know the One who sent me.
15 22 'If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for a their, sin: 15 23 he who hates me, hates my Father. 15 24 If I had not worked among them and accomplished what no other man has done, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. 15 25 [ Ps.35.19, Ps.69.4. ] However, this text in their Law had to come true: "They hated me without reason."
15 26 'But when your Advocate has come, whom I will send you from the Father - the Spirit of truth that issues from the Father - he will bear witness to me. 15 27 And you also are my witnesses, because you have been with me from the first.

16 1 'I have told you all this to guard you against the breakdown of your faith. 16 2 They will ban you from the synagogue; indeed, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will suppose that he is performing a religious duty. 16 3 They will do these things because they do not know either the Father or me. - The Work of the Spirit  Jn.16.4-15 (Jerusalem)16 4 I have told you all this so that when the time comes for it to happen you may remember my warning. I did not tell you this at first, because then I was with you;