John 15:20

Remember the word which I spoke to you, The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

In Context

19If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

21But all these things they will do to you on my account, because they know not him that sent me.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:24The disciple is not above his teacher, nor the servant above his master.

Luke 2:34And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother: Behold, this child is appointed for the fall and rising again of many in Israel, and for a sign to be spoken against,

John 5:16And for this reason did the Jews persecute Jesus, and seek to kill him, because he had done these things on the sabbath.

John 8:51Verily, verily I say to you, if any one will keep my word, he shall never see death.

John 10:31Then the Jews took up stones again, to stone him.

Matthew Henry on John 15:19-26

Hatred and Persecution Foretold. 18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. 20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. 21 But all these things will they do unto you… Read the whole commentary →

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