² People will ·put you out of [ban you from] their synagogues. Yes, ·the time [^Lan hour; ^Can indefinite reference to a future time but likely connected to the period after the death and resurrection of Christ] is coming when those who kill you will think they are offering ·service [worship] to God. ³ They will do this because they have not known the Father and they have not known me. ⁴ I have told you these things now so that when ·the time [^Ltheir hour; ^Cthe time of persecution] comes you will remember that I ·warned [told] you [about them].

The Work of the Holy Spirit

“I did not tell you ·these things [^Cthat they would experience persecution] ·at [from] the beginning, because I was with you then.