John 16:2 Cross References - Wesley

² yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you, will think he doth God service.

²⁸ And be not afraid of them who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather be afraid of him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

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

² For I bear them record, that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. ³ For they being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

⁶ persecuting the church, touching the righteousness, which is by the law, blameless.

²² Happy are ye when men shall hate you, and shall separate you from their company, and shall revile you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

²¹ Jesus saith to her, Woman, Believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor at Jerusalem, worship the Father.

²² He is of age: ask him; he will speak concerning himself. His parents said this, because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed, That if any man should own him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

³⁴ They answered and said to him, Thou-wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.

⁴² Nevertheless many even of the rulers believed on him, but they did not confess him, because of the Pharisees, lest they should be put out of the synagogue.

³³ When they heard this, they gnashed their teeth, and took counsel to slay them.

¹³ And set up false witnesses who said, This man ceaseth not to speak words against the holy place and the law. ¹⁴ For we have heard him say, That Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and change the rites which Moses delivered us.

⁵⁶ And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right-hand of God.

¹ But Saul still breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, ² going to the high priest, Desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, he might bring both men and women bound to Jerusalem.

³ and he saith) I am verily a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and accurately instructed in the law of our fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day. ⁴ And I persecuted this way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women: As likewise the high priest is my witness, and all the estate of the elders:

¹⁹ And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned, and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee. ²⁰ And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by and consenting to his death, and kept the garments of them that slew him. ²¹ But he said to me, Depart: for I will send thee far off to the Gentiles. ²² And they heard him to this word, and then lifted up their voice and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth; for it is not fit that he should live. ²³ And as they cried out, and rent their garments, and cast dust into the air,

⁹ I indeed thought myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth: ¹⁰ Which also I did in Jerusalem: and having received authority from the chief priests, I shut up many of the saints in prisons, and when they were killed, I gave my vote against them. ¹¹ And frequently punishing them in all the synagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

¹³ Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and off-scouring of all things to this day.

¹³ For ye have heard of my behaviour in time past in the Jewish religion, that above measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it. ¹⁴ And I profited in the Jewish religion above many of my years among my countrymen, being more abundantly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

⁹ And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that had been slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held.