John 16:3
New International Version
They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.

New Living Translation
This is because they have never known the Father or me.

English Standard Version
And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

Berean Standard Bible
They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.

Berean Literal Bible
And they will do these things because they do not know the Father nor Me.

King James Bible
And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

New King James Version
And these things they will do to you because they have not known the Father nor Me.

New American Standard Bible
These things they will do because they have not known the Father nor Me.

NASB 1995
“These things they will do because they have not known the Father or Me.

NASB 1977
“And these things they will do, because they have not known the Father, or Me.

Legacy Standard Bible
These things they will do because they did not know the Father or Me.

Amplified Bible
And they will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.

Christian Standard Bible
They will do these things because they haven’t known the Father or me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They will do these things because they haven’t known the Father or Me.

American Standard Version
And these things will they do, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“And they shall do these things because they do not know either my Father or me.”

Contemporary English Version
They will do these things because they don't know either the Father or me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And these things will they do to you; because they have not known the Father, nor me.

English Revised Version
And these things will they do, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They will do these things to you because they haven't known the Father or me.

Good News Translation
People will do these things to you because they have not known either the Father or me.

International Standard Version
They'll do this because they haven't known the Father or me.

Literal Standard Version
and these things they will do to you, because they did not know the Father, nor Me.

Majority Standard Bible
They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.

New American Bible
They will do this because they have not known either the Father or me.

NET Bible
They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.

New Revised Standard Version
And they will do this because they have not known the Father or me.

New Heart English Bible
They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.

Webster's Bible Translation
And these things will they do to you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

Weymouth New Testament
And they will do these things because they have failed to recognize the Father and to discover who I am.

World English Bible
They will do these things because they have not known the Father nor me.

Young's Literal Translation
and these things they will do to you, because they did not know the Father, nor me.

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Context
Persecution Foretold
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. 3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me. 4But I have told you these things so that when their hour comes, you will remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.…

Cross References
John 8:19
"Where is Your Father?" they asked Him. "You do not know Me or My Father," Jesus answered. "If you knew Me, you would know My Father as well."

John 8:55
You do not know Him, but I know Him. If I said I did not know Him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know Him, and I keep His word.

John 15:21
But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.

John 17:25
Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.

Acts 3:17
And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders.

1 John 2:23
Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well.

1 John 3:1
Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.


Treasury of Scripture

And these things will they do to you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

because.

John 8:19,55
Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also…

John 15:21,23
But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me…

John 17:3,25
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent…

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(3) Because they have not known the Father, nor me.--Comp. Note on John 15:21. He repeats that ignorance of God is the cause of the world's hatred and persecution, and adds here that it is ignorance of God revealed in Himself. There is a special force in the mention of this ignorance in connection with the previous verse. Men think that in exclusion, and anathemas, and persecutions, and deaths of men made like themselves in the image of God, they are offering to God an acceptable sacrifice. They can know nothing of the true nature of the living Father who pitieth every child, and willeth not the death of a sinner, and gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. They know nothing of the long-suffering and compassion of the Son of Man, who pleaded even for His murderers, "Father, forgive them, they know not what they do."



Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
They will do
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.

these things
ταῦτα (tauta)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

because
ὅτι (hoti)
Conjunction
Strong's 3754: Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because.

they have not known
ἔγνωσαν (egnōsan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1097: A prolonged form of a primary verb; to 'know' in a great variety of applications and with many implications.

the
τὸν (ton)
Article - Accusative 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.

Father
Πατέρα (Patera)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3962: Father, (Heavenly) Father, ancestor, elder, senior. Apparently a primary word; a 'father'.

[or]
οὐδὲ (oude)
Conjunction
Strong's 3761: Neither, nor, not even, and not. From ou and de; not however, i.e. Neither, nor, not even.

Me.
ἐμέ (eme)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.


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