⁷ The world cannot hate you, but it hates me^(A) because I testify that its works are evil.^(B)

The World Hates the Disciples

¹⁸ “If the world hates you,^(A) keep in mind that it hated me first.

²⁴ If I had not done among them the works no one else did,^(A) they would not be guilty of sin.^(B) 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:^(A) ‘They hated me without reason.’^[a](B)