John 15:20

Remember the word that I spoke to you, That there is no servant, who is greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; and if they have observed my teaching, they will also observe yours.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 ye were of the world, the world would love what is of it. But ye are not of the world, for I have chosen you out of the world; for this cause, the world hateth you.

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

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Cross References

Matthew 10:24No disciple is better than his rabbi; nor a servant, than his lord.

Luke 2:34And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother: Behold, this child is set forth for the fall and for the rising of many in Israel, and for a standard of contention;

John 5:16And for this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him; because he had done these things on the sabbath.

John 8:51Verily, verily, I say to you: He that keepeth my word, will never see death.

John 10:31And again the Jews 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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