¹ `These things I have spoken to you, that ye may not be stumbled,

²¹ and he hath not root in himself, but is temporary, and persecution or tribulation having happened because of the word, immediately he is stumbled.

⁸ and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence -- who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving, -- to which also they were set;

¹⁰ for your proving the things that differ, that ye may be pure and offenceless -- to a day of Christ,

²¹ Right `it is' not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to `do anything' in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

¹⁸ if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;

¹⁹ if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not -- but I chose out of the world -- because of this the world hateth you.

²⁰ `Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep;

²¹ but all these things will they do to you, because of my name, because they have not known Him who sent me;

²² if I had not come and spoken to them, they were not having sin; but now pretext they have not for their sin.

²³ `He who is hating me, doth hate also my Father;

²⁴ if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father;

²⁵ but -- that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law -- They hated me without a cause.

²⁶ `And when the Comforter may come, whom I will send to you from the Father -- the Spirit of truth, who from the Father doth come forth, he will testify of me;

²⁷ and ye also do testify, because from the beginning ye are with me.

³¹ then saith Jesus to them, `All ye shall be stumbled at me this night; for it hath been written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad;

³² but, after my having risen, I will go before you to Galilee.'

³³ And Peter answering said to him, `Even if all shall be stumbled at thee, I will never be stumbled.'

⁴ `But these things I have spoken to you, that when the hour may come, ye may remember them, that I said `them' to you, and these things to you from the beginning I did not say, because I was with you;

¹⁰ and then shall many be stumbled, and they shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another.

⁶ and happy is he who may not be stumbled in me.'

¹¹ these things I have spoken to you, that my joy in you may remain, and your joy may be full.

⁵⁷ and they were stumbled at him. And Jesus said to them, `A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, and in his own house:'