¹⁶ “Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; but whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”^(A)

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.

¹⁹ If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you^(A) out of the world. That is why the world hates you.^(B)

¹³ Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters,^[a] if the world hates you.^(A)