Luke 21:16
You will be betrayed even by your parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and they will kill some of you.
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15for I will give you words of wisdom that your enemies won't be able to dispute or contradict.
17Everyone will hate you because of me.
Cross References
Jeremiah 9:4Everyone, watch out for your friends! Don't even trust your brother! Every brother is deceitful, and every friend slanders other people.
Micah 7:5Don't trust a neighbor, don't rely on a friend. Watch what you say even to the one who lies in your arms.
Mark 13:12Brother will betray brother to death, and a father will betray his child. Children will turn against their parents and have them condemned to death.
Acts 7:59As they went on stoning him, Stephen prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
Acts 26:10This is what I did in Jerusalem. I threw many of the believers in prison, having been given authority to do this by the chief priests. When they were sentenced to death I cast my vote against them.
Revelation 6:9When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar those who had been killed because of their dedication to the word of God and their faithful witness.
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 →