A moment in scripture
John 15:20
Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
The surrounding passage
- John 15:18
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
- John 15:19
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
- John 15:21
But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
- John 15:22
If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.