20 Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’[a](A) If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also.(B) If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.

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Footnotes

  1. John 15:20 John 13:16

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.

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12 In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,(A)

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12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

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16 Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master,(A) nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

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16 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.

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24 “The student is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his master.(A)

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24 The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.

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But the people of Israel are not willing to listen(A) to you because they are not willing to listen to me, for all the Israelites are hardened and obstinate.(B)

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But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.

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persecuted,(A) but not abandoned;(B) struck down, but not destroyed.(C)

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Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

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12 We work hard with our own hands.(A) When we are cursed, we bless;(B) when we are persecuted,(C) we endure it;

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12 And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

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27 Indeed Herod(A) and Pontius Pilate(B) met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus,(C) whom you anointed. 28 They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen.(D) 29 Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness.(E) 30 Stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders(F) through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”(G)

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27 For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,

28 For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

29 And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,

30 By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.

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51 Very truly I tell you, whoever obeys my word will never see death.”(A)

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51 Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.

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15 who killed the Lord Jesus(A) and the prophets(B) and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to everyone

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15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

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31 Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him,(A)

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31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.

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40 The student is not above the teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like their teacher.(A)

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40 The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.

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53 Who has believed our message(A)
    and to whom has the arm(B) of the Lord been revealed?(C)
He grew up before him like a tender shoot,(D)
    and like a root(E) out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
    nothing in his appearance(F) that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by mankind,
    a man of suffering,(G) and familiar with pain.(H)
Like one from whom people hide(I) their faces
    he was despised,(J) and we held him in low esteem.

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53 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?

For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

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