John 15:18-25

18“If the world hates you, know that it has hated Me before you.

19If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. But you are not of the world, since I have chosen you out of the world; therefore the world hates you.

20“Remember the word I spoke to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you also. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.

21“But all these things they will do to you for the sake of My name, because they do not know the One who sent Me.

22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin.

23“He who hates Me also hates My Father.

24If I had not done works among them that no one else did, they would have no sin. But now they have seen and have hated both Me and My Father.

25So is fulfilled the word written in their Scripture, ‘They hated Me for no reason.’