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

¹⁷ This is my command: Love each other.^(A)

The World Hates the Disciples

¹⁸ “If the world hates you,^(B) 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^(C) out of the world. That is why the world hates you.^(D)

²³ Whoever hates me hates my Father as well.

⁷ The world cannot hate you, but it hates me^(A) because I testify that its works are evil.^(B)

⁸ In one month I got rid of the three shepherds.

The flock detested^(A) me, and I grew weary of them