And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
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Gill's Exposition
And these things will they do unto you,.... Christ here opens the true spring and source of the furious zeal of the Jews, against the apostles, in putting them out of their synagogues, and taking away…
Adam Clarke
Because they have not known the Father - See on Joh 15:25 (note). Ignorance of the benevolence of God, and of the philanthropy of Christ, is the grand fountain whence all religious persecution and…
Christ dealt faithfully with his disciples when he sent them forth on his errands, for he told them the worst of it, that they might sit down and count the cost. He had told them in the chapter before…
Cambridge Bible
unto you These words are of doubtful authority.
they have not known Better, they did not recognise. The verb implies that they had the opportunity of knowing; but they had failed to see that God is…
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