John 15:21

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

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

20Remember 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.

22If I had not come and discoursed with them, sin would not have been to them; but now there is no excuse for their sins.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:18And they will bring you before governors and kings, on my account, for a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.

Matthew 10:39He that preserveth his life, shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake, shall preserve it.

Luke 6:22Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and repel you, and revile you, and cast out your names as base, for the Son of man's sake.

John 8:54Jesus said to them: If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father that glorifieth me, of whom ye say, He is our God.

Acts 3:17And now, my brethren, I know that through misapprehensions ye did this, as did also your chiefs:

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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