Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, John by R F Weymouth
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015:022 "If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have had no sin;
but as the case stands they are without excuse for their sin. 015:023 He who hates me hates my Father also. 015:024 If I had not done among them, as I have, such miracles as no one else ever did, they would have had no sin; but they have in fact seen and also hated both me and my Father. 015:025 But this has been so, in order that the saying may be fulfilled which stands written in their Law, `They have hated me without any reason.' 015:026 "When the Advocate is come whom I will send to you from the Father's presence--the Spirit of Truth who comes forth from the Father's presence--He will be a witness concerning me. 015:027 And you also are witnesses, because you have been with me from the first. 016:001 "These things I have spoken to you in order to clear stumbling-blocks out of your path. 016:002 You will be excluded from the synagogues; nay more, the time is coming when any one who has murdered one of you will suppose he is offering service to God. 016:003 And they will do these things because they have failed to recognize the Father and to discover who I am. 016:004 But I have spoken these things to you in order that when the time for their accomplishment comes you may remember them, and may recollect that I told you. I did not, however, tell you all this at first, because I was still with you. 016:005 But now I an returning to Him who sent me; and not one of you asks me where I am going. 016:006 But grief has filled your hearts because I have said all this to you. 016:007 "Yet it is the truth that I am telling you--it is to your |
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