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John 15:20
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John 15:20
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20 Remember what[a] I told you, ‘A slave[b] is not greater than his master.’[c] If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed[d] my word, they will obey[e] yours too.
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- John 15:20 tn Grk “Remember the word that I said to you.”
- John 15:20 tn See the note on the word “slaves” in 4:51.
- John 15:20 sn A slave is not greater than his master. Jesus now recalled a statement he had made to the disciples before, in John 13:16. As the master has been treated, so will the slaves be treated also. If the world had persecuted Jesus, then it would also persecute the disciples. If the world had kept Jesus’ word, it would likewise keep the word of the disciples. In this statement there is the implication that the disciples would carry on the ministry of Jesus after his departure; they would in their preaching and teaching continue to spread the message which Jesus himself had taught while he was with them. And they would meet with the same response, by and large, that he encountered.
- John 15:20 tn Or “if they kept.”
- John 15:20 tn Or “they will keep.”
John 16:2
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John 16:2
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2 They will put you out of[a] the synagogue,[b] yet a time[c] is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.[d]
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- John 16:2 tn Or “expel you from.”
- John 16:2 sn See the note on synagogue in 6:59.
- John 16:2 tn Grk “an hour.”
- John 16:2 sn Jesus now refers not to the time of his return to the Father, as he has frequently done up to this point, but to the disciples’ time of persecution. They will be excommunicated from Jewish synagogues. There will even be a time when those who kill Jesus’ disciples will think that they are offering service to God by putting the disciples to death. Because of the reference to service offered to God, it is almost certain that Jewish opposition is intended here in both cases rather than Jewish opposition in the first instance (putting the disciples out of synagogues) and Roman opposition in the second (putting the disciples to death). Such opposition materializes later and is recorded in Acts: The stoning of Stephen in 7:58-60 and the slaying of James the brother of John by Herod Agrippa I in Acts 12:2-3 are notable examples.
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