16 “I have said these things to you to keep you from falling away.^[a](A)

⁸ and

They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.^(A)

Peter’s Denial Foretold

³¹ Then Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away^[a] because of me this night, for it is written,

³² “But after I am raised up, I will go ahead of you to Galilee.”^{(B) 33} Peter said to him, “Even if all fall away^[b] because of you, I will never fall away.”^[c]

²¹ yet such a person has no root but endures only for a while, and when trouble or persecution arises on account of the word, that person immediately falls away.^[a](A)

⁴ But I have said these things to you so that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you about them.

The Work of the Spirit

“I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.

The World’s Hatred

¹⁸ “If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you.^{(A) 19} If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you, ‘Slaves are not greater than their master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also.^{(B) 21} But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.^{(C) 22} If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.^{(D) 23} Whoever hates me hates my Father also.^{(E) 24} If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.^{(F) 25} It was to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’^(G)

²⁶ “When the Advocate^[a] comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, he will testify on my behalf.^{(H) 27} You also are to testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.^(I)

¹⁰ Then many will fall away,^[a] and they will betray one another and hate one another.^(A)

²¹ it is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that makes your brother or sister stumble.^[a](A)

⁵⁷ And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “Prophets are not without honor except in their own hometown and in their own house.”^(A)