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“I have told you these things so that you won’t abandon your faith.
2
For you will be expelled from the synagogues, and the time is coming when those who kill you will think they are doing a holy service for God.
3
This is because they have never known the Father or me.
4
Yes, I’m telling you these things now, so that when they happen, you will remember my warning. I didn’t tell you earlier because I was going to be with you for a while longer.
5
“But now I am going away to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking where I am going.
6
Instead, you grieve because of what I’ve told you.