⁸ In one month ^(A)I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.

The Hatred of the World

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

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

^34 (A)Therefore ^(B)I send you ^(C)prophets and wise men and ^(D)scribes, ^(E)some of whom you will kill and crucify, and ^(F)some you will ^(G)flog in your synagogues and ^(H)persecute from town to town, ³⁵ so that on you may come all ^(I)the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous ^(J)Abel to the blood of ^(K)Zechariah the son of Barachiah,^[a] whom you murdered between ^(L)the sanctuary and ^(M)the altar. ³⁶ Truly, I say to you, ^(N)all these things will come upon this generation.

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

^23 (A)Whoever hates me hates my Father also. ^24 (B)If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, ^(C)they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have ^(D)seen and hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ But ^(E)the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ^(F)‘They hated me without a cause.’