^14 (A)But his citizens hated him, and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We will not have this man to reign over us.’

⁷ And the Lord said to Samuel, “Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for ^(A)they have not rejected you, but ^(B)they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them.

Israel Resists the Holy Spirit

⁵¹ “You ^(A)stiff-necked^[a] and ^(B)uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. ^52 (C)Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of ^(D)the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers,

¹⁴ But you denied ^(A)the Holy One ^(B)and the Just, and ^(C)asked for a murderer to be granted to you, ¹⁵ and killed the ^[a]Prince of life, ^(D)whom God raised from the dead, ^(E)of which we are witnesses.

^23 (A)He who hates Me hates My Father also. ²⁴ If I had not done among them ^(B)the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have ^(C)seen and also hated both Me and My Father.

The World’s Hatred

^18 (A)“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.

²⁷ “For ^(A)truly against ^(B)Your holy Servant Jesus, ^(C)whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together ^28 (D)to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done.

^11 (A)He came to His ^[a]own, and His ^[b]own did not receive Him.

²⁷ But bring here those enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, and slay them before me.’ ”