John 15:20

Remember the word which I spake with you, That there is no servant who is greater than his lord. If me they have persecuted, you also will they persecute; and if my word they had kept, yours also would they keep.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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

19And if of the world you were, the world its own would have loved; but you are not of the world, for I have chosen you from the world; on which account the world hateth you.

21But these all will they do to you on account of my name, because they know not Him who sent me.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:24The disciple is not greater than his master, nor the servant than his lord.

Luke 2:34And Shemun blessed them, and said to Mariam his mother, Behold, this child is set for the ruin and uprising of many in Isroel, for the sign of contention.

John 5:16On account of this the Jihudoyee persecuted Jeshu, and sought to kill him, because these things he had done on the shabath.

John 8:51Amen, amen, I say to you, That he who my word keepeth, death shall not see for ever.

John 10:31And again the Jihudoyee took 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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