John 16:2

The disciples will be expelled from synagogues, and a time will come when killing them will be thought a service to God. Persecution will even wear a religious guise.

Cross-references · 21

• John 9:22His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already determined that anyone who confessed Jesus as the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.
• Acts 26:9–11So then, I too was convinced that I ought to do all I could to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
• Rom 10:2–3For I testify about them that they are zealous for God, but not on the basis of knowledge.
• Matt 10:28Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
• Acts 22:3–4“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but raised in this city. I was educated at the feet of Gamaliel in strict conformity to the law of our fathers. I am just as zealous for God as any of you here today.
• John 12:42Nevertheless, many of the leaders believed in Him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue.
• Rev 6:9And when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony they had upheld.
• Luke 6:22Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man.
• Acts 22:19–23‘Lord,’ I answered, ‘they know very well that in one synagogue after another I imprisoned and beat those who believed in You.
• Isa 66:5You who tremble at His word, hear the word of the LORD: “Your brothers who hate you and exclude you because of My name have said, ‘Let the LORD be glorified that we may see your joy!’ But they will be put to shame.”
• Matt 24:9Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
• 1 Cor 4:13when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.
• Acts 7:56“Look,” he said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”
• Acts 6:13–14where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.
• Acts 9:1–2Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord. He approached the high priest
• Isa 65:5They say, ‘Keep to yourself; do not come near me, for I am holier than you!’ Such people are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all day long.
• John 9:34They replied, “You were born in utter sin, and you are instructing us?” And they threw him out.
• Gal 1:13–14For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how severely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it.
• Acts 5:33When the Council members heard this, they were enraged, and they resolved to put the apostles to death.
• John 4:21“Believe Me, woman,” Jesus replied, “a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
• Phil 3:6as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.

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