The World’s Hatred of Christ John
15:18-27
“If the world hates you, just
remember that it has hated me first. If you belonged to the world, then the
world would love you as its own. But I chose you from the world, and you do not
belong to it; that is why the world hates you. Remember what I told you ‘Slaves
are not greater than their master.’ If people persecute me, they will persecute
you too; if they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours too. But they will do
all this to you because you are mine for they do not know the one who sent me.
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. Whoever hates me hates my
Father also. 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. 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.
John 16:1-4 “I
have told you this, so that you will not give up your faith. You will be
expelled from the synagogues, and the time will come when anyone, who kills you
will think that by doing this he is serving God. People will do these things to
you because they have not known either the Father or me. But I have told you
this, so that when the time comes for them to do these things, you will
remember that I told you.
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