15 ¹⁸ 'If the world hates you, it hated me first, as you know well. Or: bear in mind that it hated me first. 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. Or: but now they have indeed seen my work and yet have hated both me and my Father. 15 ^{25 [ Ps.35.19, Ps.69.4. ]} However, this text in their Law had to come true: Or: let this text in their Law 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;