They will expel you from the synagogue,[a] but an hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think they are offering service to God. And they will do these things because they do not know the Father or me. But I have said these things to you so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you about them.

Jesus’ Departure and the Coming of the Holy Spirit

“And I have not said these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.

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Footnotes

  1. John 16:2 Literally “they will make you expelled from the synagogue”

They will put you out of the synagogue;(A) in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God.(B) They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.(C) I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember(D) that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you,(E)

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