20. Remember what I told you: ‘Slaves are not greater than their master.’ If people persecuted me, they will persecute you too; if they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours too.
21. But they will do all this to you because you are mine; for they do not know the one who sent me.
22. They would not have been guilty of sin if I had not come and spoken to them; as it is, they no longer have any excuse for their sin.
23. Whoever hates me hates my Father also.
24. They would not have been guilty of sin if I had not done among them the things that no one else ever did; as it is, they have seen what I did, and they hate both me and my Father.
25. This, however, was bound to happen so that what is written in their Law may come true: ‘They hated me for no reason at all.’
26. “The Helper will come — the Spirit, who reveals the truth about God and who comes from the Father. I will send him to you from the Father, and he will speak about me.