John 16:2
—they will excommunicate you; indeed, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering God service!
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
1“I have spoken these things to you to avoid your being caused to stumble
3And they will do these things because they have not known either the Father or me.
Cross References
Matthew 10:28And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear the One who is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell.
Luke 6:22Blessed are you whenever men hate you, and whenever they exclude you and heap insults on you and trash your name as ‘malignant’, for the Son of the Man's sake.
John 9:22His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, because the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him to be Christ he would be barred from the synagogue.
John 12:42Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed into Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, so they would not be expelled from the synagogue;
Acts 6:13and they put forward false witnesses who said: “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against the holy place and the law;
Matthew Henry on John 16:2-7
Persecution Foretold; The Expediency of Christ's Departure. 1 These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. 2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. 3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. 4 But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning,… Read the whole commentary →