mnt - John:15:18-16:4

mnt@John:15:18 @ "do not forget that it hated me first.

mnt@John:15:19 @ "If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, for that reason the world hates you.

mnt@John:15:20 @ "Remember what I told you, A slave is not better than his master. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you. If they have obeyed my word, they will obey yours also.

mnt@John:15:21 @ "But they will do all these things to you for my names sake, because they know not Him who sent me.

mnt@John:15:22 @ "If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

mnt@John:15:23 @ "He who hates me hates my Father also.

mnt@John:15:24 @ "If I had not done among them such works as none ever did, they would have had no sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

mnt@John:15:25 @ "And so is fulfilled the word written in their Law, They hate me without cause.

mnt@John:15:26 @ "When the Comforter is come whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth who comes forth from the Father, he will bear witness of me;

mnt@John:15:27 @ "and you to shall bear witness because you have been with me from the first.

mnt@John:16:1 @ "I have told you all this so that you may not stumble.

mnt@John:16:2 @ "They will excommunicate you from their synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will suppose that he is doing Gods service.

mnt@John:16:3 @ "And they will do these things because they have not known my Father, nor me.

mnt@John:16:4 @ "But I have told you these things, that when the time comes you may remember that I told you about them, myself. I did not, however, speak of these things at first, because I was with you.