John 15:18-27

18‘The people who belong to this world may hate you. But remember this: They hated me before they hated you.

19If you belonged to this world, this world's people would love you. They would love you because you would belong with them. But I chose you so that you would be separate from this world's people. You do not belong with them, so they hate you.

20Remember what I told you: “No servant is more important than his master is.” If they have caused trouble for me, they will also cause trouble for you. But if they have obeyed my message, they will also obey your message.

21They will do all these things to you because you belong to me. They will do them because they do not know the one who sent me.

22I have come and I have spoken my message to them. If I had not done that, they would not have been guilty of their sin. But now they cannot say, “We have not done anything wrong.”

23Anyone who hates me also hates my Father.

24When I was with them, I did many great things. Nobody else ever did things like that. If I had not done those great things among them, they would not have known what is wrong. But they have seen what I did. As a result, they have hated me, and they have hated my Father too.

25Their book of God's Law says, “They hated me without any good reason.” What that book already said long ago had to happen.

26When I return to my Father, I will send the Helper to you. The Helper is God's Spirit who speaks only true things. He comes to you from the Father. I will send him to you and he will speak true things about me.

27You also must speak to people about me, because you have been with me from the beginning.’