John 15:20

Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.

Majority Standard Bible

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, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.

21But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.

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Cross References

Isaiah 53:1Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

Matthew 10:24A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.

Luke 2:34Then Simeon blessed them and said to His mother Mary: “Behold, this Child is appointed to cause the rise and fall of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against,

John 5:16Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews began to persecute Him and were seeking to kill Him.

John 8:51Truly, truly, I tell you, if anyone keeps My word, he will never see death.”

John 10:31At this, the Jews again picked up stones 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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