Luke 21:16
And ye will be betrayed even by parents, and kinsmen, and friends, and brothers. And some of you they will condemn to death.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
17And ye will be hated by all men because of my name.
Cross References
Jeremiah 9:4Take ye heed each one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother, for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.
Micah 7:5Trust ye not in a neighbor. Put ye not confidence in a friend. Keep the doors of thy mouth from her who lays in thy bosom.
Mark 13:12And brother will betray brother to death, and a father a child. And children will rise up against parents, and will condemn them to death.
Acts 7:59And they stoned Stephen, who was calling and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
Acts 26:10which also I did at Jerusalem. And I locked up many of the sanctified in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests. And when they were killed, I gave a vote against them.
Revelation 6:9And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed because of the word of God, and because of the testimony of the Lamb that they held.
Matthew Henry on Luke 21:6-20
Judgments Predicted. 5 And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, 6 As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. 7 And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass? 8 And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time… Read the whole commentary →