21 They will treat you this way because of my name,(A) for they do not know the one who sent me.(B) 22 If I had not come and spoken to them,(C) they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.(D) 23 Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. 24 If I had not done among them the works no one else did,(E) they would not be guilty of sin.(F) 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:(G) ‘They hated me without reason.’[a](H)

The Work of the Holy Spirit

26 “When the Advocate(I) comes, whom I will send to you from the Father(J)—the Spirit of truth(K) who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.(L)

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Footnotes

  1. John 15:25 Psalms 35:19; 69:4

21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.

22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.

23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

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

26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

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