John 15:20-22

20Do you remember what I told you? ‘A slave is not greater than the master.’ Since they persecuted me, naturally they will persecute you. And if they had listened to me, they would listen to you.

21They will do all this to you because of me, for they have rejected the one who sent me.

22They would not be guilty if I had not come and spoken to them. But now they have no excuse for their sin.