JOHN 17:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.”
I have given them your word, and the world hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world — The disciples' reception of God's word (logos) produces inevitable conflict with "the world" (kosmos), the realm opposed to God's purposes. The mutual rejection—disciples hated by the world because they are "not of the world" (ek tou kosmou), just as Jesus is alien to worldly values—establishes the disciples' true identity. This hatred fulfills the pattern established by Jesus' own rejection (1:11, 7:7).
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