Luke 21:16
You will be betrayed even by parents and relatives, friends and brothers; and they will put some of you to death.
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
17And you will be hated by all people for My name's sake.
Cross References
Mark 13:12Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and will cause them to be put to death.
Acts 7:59And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
Acts 26:10which also I did in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I shut up in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were being put to death, I cast my vote against them.
Revelation 6:9And when He opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which 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 →