But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me — persecution comes because the disciples bear Jesus' name and embody his mission; those who persecute them are at root persecuting Jesus, and in persecuting Jesus they are rejecting the one who sent him, the Father. The ignorance (ou ginōskousin—do not know, have no relational knowledge) of the persecutors is their fundamental problem; they do not know God and thus cannot recognize the divine in Jesus or in his disciples.

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