John 15:20

Remember what I said to you – ‘A servant is not greater than their master.’ If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have laid my message to heart, they will lay yours to heart also.

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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 belonged to the world, the world would love its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world – that is why the world hates you.

21But they will do all this to you, because you believe in my name, for they do not know him who sent me.

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Cross References

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

Luke 2:34Simeon gave them his blessing, and said to Mary, the child’s mother, “This child is appointed to be the cause of the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a sign much spoken against –

John 5:16And that was why they began to persecute Jesus – because he did things of this kind on the Sabbath.

John 8:51In truth I tell you, if anyone lays my message to heart, he will never really die.”

John 10:31Some of the people again brought stones to throw at 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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