John 16:2

Coming Testimony And Rejection

¹ "I have told you these things to keep you from falling over stumbling blocks. ²  Men will turn you out of their synagogues. Yes, indeed, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think that he is rendering a religious service to God. ³ They will do this, because they have never come to know God nor me.

Before God

Hour is Coming

Time is Coming

O God

John

John 9:22

His parents said this, because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone owned Jesus as the Christ, he should be shut out of the synagogues.

Acts 26:9-11

I myself, indeed, once thought it my duty to take extreme measures in hostility to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

John 12:42

And yet in spite of all this, even among the leading men many came to believe in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not own it, for fear of being turned out of the synagogue,

Acts 5:33

When they heard this, they were furious, and wanted to kill them.

Acts 6:13-14

Then they put up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops saying things against this holy place and against the law,

Acts 7:56-3

So he said, "Look! I see heaven open, and the Son of Man standing at God's right hand."

Acts 9:1-2

Now Saul, as he was still breathing threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

Acts 22:3-4

"I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up here in this city, and carefully educated under the teaching of Gamaliel in the law of our forefathers. I was zealous for God, as all of you are today.

Acts 22:19-23

So I said, 'Lord, they know for themselves that from one synagogue to another I used to imprison and flog those who believed in you,

Romans 10:2-3

For I can testify that they are zealous for God, but they are not intelligently so.

1 Corinthians 4:13

When we are slandered by them, we try to conciliate them. To this very hour we have been made the filth of the world, the scum of the universe!

Galatians 1:13-14

You have heard, indeed, of my former conduct as an adherent of the Jewish religion, how I kept on furiously persecuting the church of God, and tried to destroy it,

Matthew 10:28

You must never be afraid of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. But rather you must keep on fearing Him who can destroy both soul and body in the pit.

Matthew 24:9

At that time they will turn you over to torture, and will murder you, and you will be hated by all the heathen, because you bear my name.

Luke 6:22

Blessed are you when people hate you and exclude you and denounce you, and spurn your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man.

John 4:21

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

John 9:34

Then they retorted, "You were born in total depravity, and yet you are trying to teach us!" And so they turned him out of the synagogue.

Philippians 3:6

by the standard set by zeal, I was a persecutor of the church, and measured by the uprightness reached by keeping the law, I was faultless.

Revelation 6:9

When He broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered for being faithful to God's message and for the testimony they bore to it.