Luke 21:16
You will be betrayed even by your parents and brothers and sisters and relatives and friends, and they will cause some of you to be put to death,
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17and you will be hated by everyone because of me my name.
Cross References
Micah 7:5Do not trust your neighbor, do not rely on a friend. From the wife who lies in your arms guard your tongue.
Mark 13:12Brother will betray brother to death, and the father his child; and children will turn against their parents, and cause them to be put to death;
Acts 7:59And they stoned Stephen, while he cried to the Lord, “Lord Jesus! Receive my spirit!”
Acts 26:10and I actually did so at Jerusalem. Acting on the authority of the chief priests, I myself threw many of the people of Christ into prison, and, when it was proposed to put them to death, I gave my vote for it.
Revelation 6:9When the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the sake of God’s message and for the testimony which they had borne.
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 →