John 16:2
New International Version
They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God.

New Living Translation
For you will be expelled from the synagogues, and the time is coming when those who kill you will think they are doing a holy service for God.

English Standard Version
They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.

Berean Standard Bible
They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.

Berean Literal Bible
They will put you out of the synagogues; but an hour is coming that everyone having killed you will think it is to offer a service to God.

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

New King James Version
They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service.

New American Standard Bible
They will ban you from the synagogue, yet an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering a service to God.

NASB 1995
“They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.

NASB 1977
“They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.

Legacy Standard Bible
They will put you out of the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.

Amplified Bible
They will put you out of the synagogues and make you outcasts. And a time is coming when whoever kills you will think that he is offering service to God.

Christian Standard Bible
They will ban you from the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They will ban you from the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

American Standard Version
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you shall think that he offereth service unto God.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“For they shall put you out from their assemblies, and the hour will come when everyone who would kill you will think that he presents an offering to God.”

Contemporary English Version
You will be chased out of the synagogues. And the time will come when people will kill you and think they are doing God a favor.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They will put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he doth a service to God.

English Revised Version
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you shall think that he offereth service unto God.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You will be thrown out of synagogues. Certainly, the time is coming when people who murder you will think that they are serving God.

Good News Translation
You will be expelled from the synagogues, and the time will come when those who kill you will think that by doing this they are serving God.

International Standard Version
You'll be thrown out of the synagogues. Yes, a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he's serving God.

Literal Standard Version
They will put you out of the synagogues, but an hour comes that everyone who has killed you may think to offer service to God;

Majority Standard Bible
They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.

New American Bible
They will expel you from the synagogues; in fact, the hour is coming when everyone who kills you will think he is offering worship to God.

NET Bible
They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

New Revised Standard Version
They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, an hour is coming when those who kill you will think that by doing so they are offering worship to God.

New Heart English Bible
They will put you out of the synagogues, but an hour is coming when whoever kills you will think that he is offering a service to God.

Webster's Bible Translation
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yes, the time cometh, that whoever killeth you, will think that he doeth God service.

Weymouth New Testament
You will be excluded from the synagogues; nay more, the time is coming when any one who has murdered one of you will suppose he is offering service to God.

World English Bible
They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

Young's Literal Translation
out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God;

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Context
Persecution Foretold
1“I have told you these things so that you will not fall away. 2They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God. 3They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.…

Cross References
Isaiah 66:5
You who tremble at His word, hear the word of the LORD: "Your brothers who hate you and exclude you because of My name have said, 'Let the LORD be glorified that we may see your joy!' But they will be put to shame."

Daniel 11:33
Those with insight will instruct many, though for a time they will fall by sword or flame, or be captured or plundered.

Matthew 24:9
Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.

Luke 6:22
Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man.

John 4:21
"Believe Me, woman," Jesus replied, "a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

John 4:23
But a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such as these to worship Him.

John 9:22
His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already determined that anyone who confessed Jesus as the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.


Treasury of Scripture

They shall put you out of the synagogues: yes, the time comes, that whoever kills you will think that he does God service.

shall.

John 9:22,34
These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue…

John 12:42
Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue:

Luke 6:22
Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

the time.

Isaiah 65:5
Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.

Matthew 10:28
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Matthew 24:9
Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

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1. Jesus comforts his disciples by the promise of the Holy Spirit, and his ascension;
23. assures their prayers made in his name to be acceptable.
33. Peace in Jesus, and in the world affliction.














(2) They shall put you out of the synagogues.--Comp. Notes on John 9:22; John 12:42.

Will think that he doeth God service.--Better, will think that he offereth to God a sacrificial service. The word rendered "doeth" in the Authorised version, is the technical word for offering sacrifice. (Comp., e.g., Notes on Matthew 5:23; Matthew 8:4.) The word rendered "service" means the service of worship. This will be seen by a comparison of the other instances where it occurs in the New Testament--they are Romans 9:4; Romans 12:1, and Hebrews 9:1; Hebrews 9:6. A Rabbinic comment on Numbers 25:13, is, "Whosoever sheddeth the blood of the wicked is as he who offereth sacrifice." The martyrdom of Stephen, or St. Paul's account of himself as a persecutor (Acts 26:9; Galatians 1:13-14), shows how these words were fulfilled in the first years of the Church's history, and such accounts are not absent from that history's latest page. . . .

Verses 2, 3. - They (used impersonally, as the German man, or the French ou) shall make (or, declare) you excommunicate - ἀποσυναγώγους "put you out of the synagogue," expel you from the fellowship of your country's worship (cf. John 9:22 and John 12:42) - nay, further (the ἀλλὰ abruptly introduces a very much stronger assertion) an hour cometh, that - ἵνα is here, by Meyer and many others, said to involve a Divine order, purpose, or destiny, intended by the drawing on of the foreordained crisis; but it seems enough to convey by it the contemplated result (see Canon Evans, Expositor, 1882) - whosoever killeth you will deem that he is offering service - sacrificial homage - to God (προσφέρειν; both these words are persistently used with this meaning. See, for προσφέρειν, Matthew 5:23; Matthew 8:4; Acts 7:42; Hebrews 5:1). The well-known quotation from 'Bammidbar Rabba,' fol. 329. 1, "Every one shedding the blood of the wicked is equal to him who offers sacrifice," may throw light on the expression. The intensity of the fanaticism was well exhibited in the persecution in which Stephen fell, and which St. Paul deemed worthy service, and one which he ought to have rendered (Acts 26:9; Galatians 1:13, 14). The curse was long and deep and tragic, and Christ explains it by the awful reiteration, These things will they do because they have not known the Father, nor me (see John 15:22, etc.). He reiterates the explanation already given of the manner and form as well as the fact of the world's hatred.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
They will put
ποιήσουσιν (poiēsousin)
Verb - Future Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 4160: (a) I make, manufacture, construct, (b) I do, act, cause. Apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary; to make or do.

you
ὑμᾶς (hymas)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

out of the synagogues.
ἀποσυναγώγους (aposynagōgous)
Adjective - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 656: Away from the synagogue, expelled from the synagogue, excommunicated. From apo and sunagoge; excommunicated.

In fact,
ἀλλ’ (all’)
Conjunction
Strong's 235: But, except, however. Neuter plural of allos; properly, other things, i.e. contrariwise.

a time
ὥρα (hōra)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 5610: Apparently a primary word; an 'hour'.

is coming
ἔρχεται (erchetai)
Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2064: To come, go.

when
ἵνα (hina)
Conjunction
Strong's 2443: In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that.

anyone
πᾶς (pas)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

who
(ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

kills
ἀποκτείνας (apokteinas)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 615: To put to death, kill; fig: I abolish. From apo and kteino; to kill outright; figuratively, to destroy.

you
ὑμᾶς (hymas)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

will think
δόξῃ (doxē)
Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1380: A prolonged form of a primary verb, doko dok'-o of the same meaning; to think; by implication, to seem.

he is offering
προσφέρειν (prospherein)
Verb - Present Infinitive Active
Strong's 4374: From pros and phero; to bear towards, i.e. Lead to, tender, treat.

a service
λατρείαν (latreian)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2999: Service rendered to God, perhaps simply: worship. From latreuo; ministration of God, i.e. Worship.

to God.
Θεῷ (Theō)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.


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