John 16:2
They will put you out of the synagogues; indeed, an hour is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service to God.
Text-Critical English NT
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In Context
1“I have said these things to you so that you will not fall away.
3They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.
Cross References
Matthew 10:28Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul, but rather fear him who can destroy both the soul and the body in hell.
Luke 6:22Blessed are you when others hate you, when they exclude you, reproach you, and spurn your name as evil on account of the Son of Man.
John 9:22(His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess that Jesus was the Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.
John 12:42Nevertheless, many even among the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not declare it openly, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue.
Acts 6:13Then they put forward false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop speaking blasphemous words against the holy place and against 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 →