⁸ In one month I disposed of the three shepherds, for I had become impatient with them, and they also detested me.^(A)

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

³⁴ For this reason I send you prophets, sages, and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town, ³⁵ so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. ³⁶ Truly I tell you, all this will come upon this generation.

The World’s Hatred

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

¹⁴ But the citizens of his country hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’

²³ Whoever hates me hates my Father also.^{(A) 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.^{(B) 25} It was to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’^(C)

⁵⁰ the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour that he does not know. ⁵¹ He will cut him in pieces^[a] and put him with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.^(A)