"The command that I give you is this, that you love one another.
"If you find that the world hates you,
know it has hated me before you.
If you belonged to the world,
it would love you as its own;
the reason it hates you
is that you do not belong to the world.
But I chose you out of the world.
Remember what I told you:
no slave is greater than his master.
They will harry you
as they harried me.
They will respect your words
as much as they respected mine.
All this they will do to you because of my name,
for they know nothing of him who sent me.
If I had not come to them and spoken to them,
they would not be guilty of sin;
now, however, their sin cannot be excused.
To hate me is to hate my Father.
Had I not performed such works among them
as no one has ever done before,
they would not be guilty of sin;
but as it is, they have seen,
and they go on hating me and my Father.
However, this only fulfills the text in their law:
'They hated me without cause.'
When the Paraclete comes,
the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father—
and whom I myself will send from the Father—
he will bear witness on my behalf.
You must bear witness as well,
for you have been with me from the beginning.
"I have told you all this
to keep your faith from being shaken.
Not only will they expel you from synagogues;
a time will come
when anyone who puts you to death
will claim to be serving God!"