John 16:2

New English Translation

They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

Cross References

Isaiah 65:5

They say, ‘Keep to yourself! Don’t get near me, for I am holier than you!’ These people are like smoke in my nostrils, like a fire that keeps burning all day long.

Isaiah 66:5

Hear the word of the Lord, you who respect what he has to say! Your countrymen, who hate you and exclude you, supposedly for the sake of my name, say, “May the Lord be glorified, then we will witness your joy.” But they will be put to shame.

Daniel 11:33

These who are wise among the people will teach the masses. However, they will fall by the sword and by the flame, and they will be imprisoned and plundered for some time.

Matthew 10:28

Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Matthew 24:9

“Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name.

Luke 6:22

“Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject you as evil on account of the Son of Man!

John 12:42

Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue.

John 16:25

“I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; a time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

John 16:32

Look, a time is coming – and has come – when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, and I will be left alone. Yet I am not alone, because my Father is with me.

John 4:21

Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

John 4:23

But a time is coming – and now is here – when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers.

John 9:22

(His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.

John 9:34

They replied, “You were born completely in sinfulness, and yet you presume to teach us?” So they threw him out.

Acts 5:33

Now when they heard this, they became furious and wanted to execute them.

Acts 7:56

“Look!” he said. “I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

1 Corinthians 4:13

when people lie about us, we answer in a friendly manner. We are the world’s dirt and scum, even now.

Philippians 3:6

In my zeal for God I persecuted the church. According to the righteousness stipulated in the law I was blameless.

Revelation 6:9

Now when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been violently killed because of the word of God and because of the testimony they had given.

Judges 6:30

The men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son, so we can execute him! He pulled down the Baal altar and cut down the nearby Asherah pole.”