约翰福音 15:20

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

你們要記住我對你們說過的話：‘僕人不能大過主人。’他們若迫害我，也必定迫害你們；他們若遵守我的話，也必定遵守你們的話。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 们 要 记 念 我 从 前 对 你 们 所 说 的 话 ： 仆 人 不 能 大 於 主 人 。 他 们 若 逼 迫 了 我 ， 也 要 逼 迫 你 们 ； 若 遵 守 了 我 的 话 ， 也 要 遵 守 你 们 的 话 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ "If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first. ¹⁹ If you belonged to the world, it would love you as it loves its own. But I have chosen you out of the world, so you don't belong to it. That is why the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember what I told you: A servant is not greater than his master. If people did wrong to me, they will do wrong to you, too. And if they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours, too. ²¹ They will do all this to you on account of me, because they do not know the One who sent me. ²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ Whoever hates me also hates my Father. ²⁴ I did works among them that no one else has ever done. If I had not done these works, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen what I have done, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ But this happened so that what is written in their law would be true: ‘They hated me for no reason.'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

word: John 5:16, John 7:32, John 8:59, John 10:31, John 11:57, John 13:16, Matthew 10:24, Luke 2:34, Luke 6:40, Acts 4:27-30, Acts 7:52-60, 1 Thessalonians 2:15

if they have kept: 1 Samuel 8:7, Isaiah 53:1-3, Ezekiel 3:7

Reciprocal: Numbers 12:1 - Miriam 1 Samuel 22:23 - he that seeketh 1 Kings 22:24 - smote Micaiah Proverbs 7:1 - keep Matthew 5:10 - are Matthew 22:6 - the remnant Matthew 24:9 - shall they Mark 8:35 - for Mark 10:39 - Ye Mark 13:9 - take Luke 10:3 - I send Luke 21:12 - before Luke 22:36 - But John 8:51 - keep John 12:26 - serve John 15:15 - I call Acts 4:1 - the priests Acts 5:33 - took Acts 8:1 - there Acts 9:16 - I will Acts 12:1 - to vex Acts 26:15 - I am Romans 1:1 - a servant 1 John 4:5 - are 1 John 4:17 - as Revelation 3:8 - and hast kept

Cross-References

Genesis 14:5
Then in the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings with him came and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, and the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim.

Isaiah 17:5
That time will be like the grain harvest in the Valley of Rephaim. The workers cut the wheat. Then they cut the heads of grain from the plants and collect the grain.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Remember the word that I said unto you,.... For their further consolation under the hatred of the world, he puts them in mind of a saying of his, which he had lately used, John 13:16; to teach them humility, self-denial, and brotherly love, and elsewhere, as in Matthew 10:24; for the same purpose as here; namely, to engage them patiently to bear the hatred of men, and all indignities and insults from them, for his name's sake:

the servant is not greater than the Lord: nor so great, and consequently not more, nor so: much deserving of respect, or to be treated in a better manner; suggesting, that Christ was their Lord and master, as he was, and they were his servants; and therefore were not greater than him, but much inferior to him, and could not expect better usage from men than he had:

if they have persecuted me; as they did, both by words and deeds, as before observed:

they will persecute you; and so they did in like manner, and from place to place:

if they have kept my saying; which is either ironically spoken, or designs that insidious malicious observation of Christ's words, made by the Jews, with an intent to catch and lay hold on something to improve against him:

they will keep yours also; that is, either they will attend to your doctrines, or they will make the same spiteful remarks, and put the same evil constructions on your words as on mine.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Remember the word that I said ... - At their first appointment to the apostolic office. See Matthew 10:24-25.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 15:20. If they have kept my saying — Or, doctrine. Whosoever acknowledges me for the Christ will acknowledge you for my ministers.

Some translate the passage thus: If they have WATCHED my sayings, i.e. with an intent to accuse me for something which I have said, they will WATCH yours also: therefore be on your guard. παρατηρειν has this sense, as we have had occasion to observe before; and perhaps τηρειν has the same sense here, as it is much more agreeable to the context.