John 15:20

Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

World Messianic Bible British

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, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

21But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

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Cross References

Isaiah 53:1Who has believed our message? To whom has the LORD’s arm been revealed?

Matthew 10:24“A disciple is not above his rabbi, nor a servant above his lord.

Luke 2:34Simeon blessed them, and said to Miriam, his mother, “Behold, this child is appointed for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

John 5:16For this cause the Judeans persecuted Yeshua and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

John 8:51Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.”

John 10:31Therefore the Judeans took up stones again 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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