John 15:21

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

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.

In Context

20Remember 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.

22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:18and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.

Matthew 10:39He that finds his life shall lose it; and he that loses his life for my sake, shall find it.

Luke 6:22Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and shall withdraw themselves from you, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, on account of the Son of man.

John 8:54Jesus answered: If I honor myself, my honor is nothing; it is my Father that honors me, of whom you say, that he is your God.

Acts 3:17And now, brethren, I know that through ignorance you did this, as did also your rulers.

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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