NEW TESTAMENT

John 16:1–4

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1

“I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble.

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Verse 1. Which the persecutions you will have to suffer, on the part of man, may possibly occasion, particularly with the weak.

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2

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

3

They will do these things because they have not known the Father nor me.

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TR adds “to you”

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4

But I have told you these things so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

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Verse 4. That when the hour of them shall come [1], you may remember that I told you. This is both the sense and the construction, by the Greek text, which here determines the construction of the Latin. Witham.

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