A Question of Belonging — Part One

The Hatred of the World

¹⁸d“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. ¹⁹eIf you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because fyou are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. ²⁰Remember the word that I said to you: g‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, hthey will also persecute you. iIf they kept my word, they will also keep yours. ²¹But jall these things they will do to you kon account of my name, lbecause they do not know him who sent me. ²²If I had not come and spoken to them, mthey would not have been guilty of sin,2 but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³nWhoever hates me hates my Father also. ²⁴oIf I had not done among them the works that no one else did, mthey would not be guilty of sin, but now they have pseen and hated both me and my Father. ²⁵But qthe word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: r‘They hated me without a cause.’

²⁶“But swhen the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, the will bear witness about me. ²⁷And uyou also will bear witness, vbecause you have been with me wfrom the beginning.