20 Remember the word that I said to you, (A)‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. (B)If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. 21 But (C)all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. 22 (D)If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, (E)but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 (F)He who hates Me hates My Father also. 24 If I had not done among them (G)the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have (H)seen and also hated both Me and My Father. 25 But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, (I)‘They hated Me without a cause.’

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20 Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’[a](A) If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also.(B) If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 21 They will treat you this way because of my name,(C) for they do not know the one who sent me.(D) 22 If I had not come and spoken to them,(E) they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.(F) 23 Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. 24 If I had not done among them the works no one else did,(G) they would not be guilty of sin.(H) As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. 25 But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law:(I) ‘They hated me without reason.’[b](J)

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Footnotes

  1. John 15:20 John 13:16
  2. John 15:25 Psalms 35:19; 69:4