Day 16: Monday, March 23

These things I command you, that you may love one another. If the world hate you, know that it hated Me before you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, on account of this the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept My word, they will also keep yours. But all these things they will do to you on account of My name, because they know not Him who sent Me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no pretense for their sin. He who hates Me hates My Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no other has done, they would not have had sin; but now they have both seen and hated both Me and My Father. But this comes to pass that the Word might be fulfilled that is written in their Law, They hated Me without a cause. And when the Comforter has come, which I will send to you from the Father, the spirit of Truth, which goes out from the Father, this will testify concerning Me. And you also shall testify, because you are with Me from the beginning.

These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be caused to stumble. They shall make you be put out of the synagogue; but the hour comes, that everyone who kills you will think that he offers a service to God. And these things they will do to you, because they have not known the Father nor Me. But these things I have spoken to you, that when the hour comes, you may remember them, because I said them to you; but I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. But now I go away to Him who sent Me, and none of you asks Me, Whither goest Thou away? But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart full. But I tell you the truth: it is expedient for you that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you. And when He has come, He will reprove the world about sin, and about justice, and about judgment; about sin indeed, because they do not believe in Me; and about justice, because I go away to My Father, and you behold Me no more; and about judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. John 15:26 - John 16:11

As the Lord is truth itself, all that goes forth from Him is truth, and this is what is meant by the Comforter, which is also called the Spirit of truth and the Holy Spirit. True Christian Religion 139:3

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