[15:18] “If the world hates you, just remember that it has hated me first.
[15:19] If you belonged to the world, then the world would love you as its own. But I chose you from this world, and you do not belong to it; that is why the world hates you.
[15:20] Remember what I told you: ‘Slaves are not greater than their master.’ If people persecuted me, they will persecute you too; if they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours too.
[15:21] But they will do all this to you because you are mine; for they do not know the one who sent me.
[15:22] They would not have been guilty of sin if I had not come and spoken to them; as it is, they no longer have any excuse for their sin.
[15:23] Whoever hates me hates my Father also.
[15:24] They would not have been guilty of sin if I had not done among them the things that no one else ever did; as it is, they have seen what I did, and they hate both me and my Father.
[15:25] This, however, was bound to happen so that what is written in their Law may come true: ‘They hated me for no reason at all.’
[15:26] “The Helper will come—the Spirit, who reveals the truth about God and who comes from the Father. I will send him to you from the Father, and he will speak about me.
[15:27] And you, too, will speak about me, because you have been with me from the very beginning.
[16:1] “I have told you this, so that you will not give up your faith.
[16:2] You will be expelled from the synagogues, and the time will come when those who kill you will think that by doing this they are serving God.
[16:3] People will do these things to you because they have not known either the Father or me.
[16:4] But I have told you this, so that when the time comes for them to do these things, you will remember what I told you.