John 16:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

The time

General references

Luke 12:52

Bible References

The time

fear not those who can only kill the body, but cannot hurt the soul: rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

then shall they deliver you up to torments, and to death: and ye shall be hated by all nations upon my account.

When they heard that, they were so enraged, they consulted to take away their lives.

where they produc'd false witnesses, who said, this man is continually inveighing against the holy place, and against the law.

and he said, there I see the heavens open, and the son of man standing on the right hand of God.

and Saul was accessory to his death. At that time the persecution was so violent against the church at Jerusalem, they were all dispers'd through the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles,

Saul still breathing out nothing but threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord,

then he said, I am a Jew, a native of Tarsus in Cilicia, but had my education in this city: at the feet of Gamaliel I was instructed in the law, and in the exact decisions of our fathers, and was as religiously zealous as you are at this time.

I myself too once thought myself oblig'd strenuously to oppose the professors of Jesus the Nazarene, as I actually did at Jerusalem,

for I bear them witness, that they have a zeal for God, but not guided by true knowledge.

you have heard of my former behaviour, whilst I was of the Jewish religion, with what excessive violence I persecuted the church of God, and laid it waste:

if zeal is to be regarded, I persecuted the church; if the integrity prescrib'd by the law, I am without reproach;

General references

for the future, if there are five persons in one family, they will be divided; three against two, and two against three.