John 15:21-27

21 But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they have not known him that sent me.

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

23 He that hates me hates also my Father.

24 If I had not done among them the works which no other one has done, they had not had sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

25 But that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, They hated me without a cause.

26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes forth from with the Father, *he* shall bear witness concerning me;

27 and ye too bear witness, because ye are with me from [the] beginning.

Footnotes

• [a]. 'Gratuitously,' 'freely,' 'for nothing,' Ps. 35.19 and 69.4.
• [b]. Para with gen.: see Note d, ch. 1.14.