“"But all these things will they do unto you for My Name's sake, because they know not Him that sent Me." That is, "they insult Him also." Besides this, depriving those others of excuse, and putting also another source of comfort, He saith, "If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin." Showing that th…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on the Gospel of John 77
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21But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
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19If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
— John 15:21 —
22If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.