John 15:20

Remember the word which I spake unto you, The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also; if they have observed my words, they will observe your’s also.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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 ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have elected you out of the world, for this very cause the world hateth you.

21But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:24The disciple is not superior to his teacher, nor the servant above his master.

Luke 2:34And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother, Behold, this child is appointed for the fall, and rising again of many in Israel; and for a marked object to be spoken against;

John 5:16And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he had done these things on the sabbath-day.

John 8:51Verily, verily, I say unto you, If any man observe my saying, he shall never see death to all eternity.

John 10:31Then the Jews again brought stones, in order 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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