20 Remember the word that I said to you: (A)‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, (B)they will also persecute you. (C)If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

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12 Indeed, all who desire to (A)live a godly life in Christ Jesus (B)will be persecuted,

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16 Truly, truly, I say to you, (A)a servant[a] is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

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Footnotes

  1. John 13:16 Or bondservant, or slave (for the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface)

24 (A)“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant[a] above his master.

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  1. Matthew 10:24 Or bondservant; also verse 25

12 and we (A)labor, working with our own hands. (B)When reviled, we bless; (C)when persecuted, we endure;

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(A)But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me: because all the house of Israel (B)have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart.

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15 (A)who killed both the Lord Jesus and (B)the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and (C)oppose all mankind

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27 for truly in this city there were gathered together against your (A)holy servant Jesus, (B)whom you anointed, both (C)Herod and (D)Pontius Pilate, along (E)with the Gentiles and (F)the peoples of Israel, 28 (G)to do whatever your hand and (H)your plan had predestined to take place. 29 And now, Lord, (I)look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all (J)boldness, 30 while (K)you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed (L)through the name of your (M)holy servant Jesus.”

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31 (A)The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.

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51 Truly, truly, (A)I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never (B)see death.”

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53 (A)Who has believed what he has heard from us?[a]
    And to whom has (B)the arm of the Lord been revealed?
For he grew up before him like a young plant,
    (C)and like a root out of dry ground;
(D)he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
    and no beauty that we should desire him.
(E)He was despised and rejected[b] by men,
    a man of sorrows[c] and acquainted with[d] grief;[e]
and as one from whom men hide their faces[f]
    he was despised, and (F)we esteemed him not.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 53:1 Or Who has believed what we have heard?
  2. Isaiah 53:3 Or forsaken
  3. Isaiah 53:3 Or pains; also verse 4
  4. Isaiah 53:3 Or and knowing
  5. Isaiah 53:3 Or sickness; also verse 4
  6. Isaiah 53:3 Or as one who hides his face from us

52 (A)Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of (B)the Righteous One, (C)whom you have now betrayed and murdered, 53 you who received the law (D)as delivered by angels and (E)did not keep it.”

The Stoning of Stephen

54 Now when they heard these things (F)they were enraged, and they (G)ground their teeth at him. 55 But he, (H)full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw (I)the glory of God, and Jesus standing (J)at the right hand of God. 56 And he said, “Behold, I see (K)the heavens opened, and (L)the Son of Man standing (M)at the right hand of God.” 57 But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together[a] at him. 58 Then (N)they cast him out of the city and (O)stoned him. And (P)the witnesses laid down their garments (Q)at the feet of a young man named Saul. 59 And as they were stoning Stephen, (R)he called out, “Lord Jesus, (S)receive my spirit.” 60 And (T)falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, (U)“Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, (V)he fell asleep.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:57 Or rushed with one mind

57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should let them know, so that they might arrest him.

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59 So (A)they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.

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Officers Sent to Arrest Jesus

32 The Pharisees heard the crowd (A)muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent (B)officers to arrest him.

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16 And this was why the Jews (A)were persecuting Jesus, (B)because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

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40 (A)A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is (B)fully trained will be like his teacher.

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34 And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “Behold, this child is appointed (A)for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign (B)that is opposed

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And the Lord said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, (A)for they have not rejected you, (B)but they have rejected me from being king over them.

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