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Narrative: The Covenant With Many

you. If 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. Remember 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. But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know
not him that sent me. If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: But now they have

no cloke for their sin. He that hateth me hateth my Father also. If I had not done among them the works
which none other man did, they had not had sin: But now have they both seen and hated both me and
my Father. But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law,
“They hated me without a cause.

“But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of
truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: And ye also shall bear witness, because
ye have been with me from the beginning.
“These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. They shall put you out
of the synagogues: Yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God

service. And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. But
these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them.
And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you. But now I go my way to
him that sent me; and none of you asketh me,

“Whither goest thou?
“But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart. Nevertheless I
tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go away: For if I go not away, the Comforter will not come
unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of
sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: Of sin, because they believe not on me; Of righteousness,

because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; of judgment, because the prince of this world is
judged. I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the

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