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John 16:3

They will do this because they have not known the Father, and they have not known me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blindness;   Conscience;   God;   Thompson Chain Reference - Ignorance;   Knowledge-Ignorance;   Unknown, Christ;   The Topic Concordance - Holy Spirit;   Knowledge;   Persecution;   Resurrection;   Sending and Those Sent;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ignorance of God;   Persecution;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Comforter;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Children (Sons) of God;   God;   Holy Spirit;   John, Theology of;   Love, Lover, Lovely, Beloved;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Character;   Persecution (2);   Propitiation (2);   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Fruit;   Pentecost;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for May 22;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They will do these things because they haven’t known
King James Version (1611)
And these things will they doe vnto you, because they haue not knowen the Father, nor me.
King James Version
And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
English Standard Version
And they will do these things 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.
New Century Version
They will do this because they have not known the Father and they have not known me.
Amplified Bible
"And they will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"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.
Berean Standard Bible
They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.
Contemporary English Version
They will do these things because they don't know either the Father or me.
Complete Jewish Bible
They will do these things because they have understood neither the Father nor me.
Darby Translation
and these things they will do because they have not known the Father nor me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And these things will they doe vnto you, because they haue not knowen ye Father, nor me.
George Lamsa Translation
And these things they will do, because they have not known my Father, nor me.
Good News Translation
People will do these things to you because they have not known either the Father or me.
Lexham English Bible
And they will do these things because they do not know the Father or me.
Literal Translation
And they will do these things to you because they do not know the Father nor Me.
American Standard Version
And these things will they do, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
Bible in Basic English
They will do these things to you because they have not had knowledge of the Father or of me.
Hebrew Names Version
They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
International Standard Version
They will do this because they have not known the Father or me.John 15:21; Romans 10:2; 1 Corinthians 2:8; 1 Timothy 1:13;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And these will they do, because they have not known either my Father or me.
Murdock Translation
And these things will they do, because they have not known either my Father, or me.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And such thynges wyll they do vnto you, because they haue not knowen the father, neither yet me.
English Revised Version
And these things will they do, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
World English Bible
They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
These things will they do, because they have not known the Father nor me.
Weymouth's New Testament
And they will do these things because they have failed to recognize the Father and to discover who I am.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei schulen do to you these thingis, for thei han not knowun the fadir, nether me.
Update Bible Version
And these things they will do, because they haven't known the Father, nor me.
Webster's Bible Translation
And these things will they do to you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
New English Translation
They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.
New King James Version
And these things they will do to you [fn] because they have not known the Father nor Me.
New Living Translation
This is because they have never known the Father or me.
New Life Bible
They will do these things to you because they do not know the Father or Me.
New Revised Standard
And they will do this because they have not known the Father or me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, these things, will they do, because they got to know, neither the Father nor me.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And these things will they do to you; because they have not known the Father nor me.
Revised Standard Version
And they will do this because they have not known the Father, nor me.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And suche thinges will they do vnto you because they have not knowen the father nether yet me.
Young's Literal Translation
and these things they will do to you, because they did not know the Father, nor me.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And soch thinges shal they do vnto you, because they haue nether knowne ye father ner yet me.
Mace New Testament (1729)
and thus will they treat you, because they have not known the father, nor me.
Simplified Cowboy Version
They won't know what they're doing because they don't follow my Father or me.

Contextual Overview

1 "I have told you all this so that you won't lose your faith when you face troubles. 2 People will tell you to leave their synagogues and never come back. In fact, the time will come when they will think that killing you would be doing service for God. 3 They will do this because they have not known the Father, and they have not known me. 4 I have told you all this now to prepare you. So when the time comes for these things to happen, you will remember that I warned you. "I did not tell you these things at the beginning, because I was with you then. 5 Now I am going back to the one who sent me. And none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?' 6 But you are filled with sadness because I have told you all this.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

because: John 8:19, John 8:55, John 15:21, John 15:23, John 17:3, John 17:25, Luke 10:22, 1 Corinthians 2:8, 2 Corinthians 4:3-6, 2 Thessalonians 1:8, 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12, 1 Timothy 1:13, 1 John 3:1, 1 John 4:8, 1 John 5:20

Reciprocal: Exodus 5:2 - I know not Leviticus 13:29 - General Joshua 10:4 - we may 1 Samuel 2:12 - knew 1 Samuel 22:23 - he that seeketh Psalms 44:22 - killed Psalms 54:3 - they have Psalms 79:6 - not known Proverbs 19:2 - that the Jeremiah 2:8 - and they that Jeremiah 4:22 - they have Jeremiah 22:16 - was not Hosea 5:4 - and Matthew 22:6 - the remnant Luke 21:12 - before John 1:26 - whom John 4:10 - and who John 7:28 - whom John 14:1 - not John 14:7 - ye Acts 3:17 - through Acts 6:11 - they Acts 13:27 - because Acts 25:3 - laying Acts 26:9 - that Ephesians 1:17 - in the knowledge Ephesians 4:13 - the knowledge Philippians 3:8 - the excellency James 5:6 - have 1 John 2:13 - ye have known

Cross-References

Genesis 16:1
Sarai was Abram's wife, but she did not have any children. She had an Egyptian slave named Hagar.
Genesis 16:4
Abram slept with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When Hagar realized this, she became very proud and began to feel that she was better than Sarai her owner.
Genesis 16:5
Then Sarai said to Abram, "My slave girl now hates me, and I blame you for this. I gave her to you, and she became pregnant. Then she began to feel that she is better than I am. I want the Lord to judge which of us is right."
Genesis 28:9
Esau already had two wives, but he went to Abraham's son Ishmael and married another woman, Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael. Mahalath was Nebaioth's sister.
Genesis 30:4
So Rachel gave Bilhah to her husband Jacob. He had sexual relations with Bilhah.
Genesis 30:9
Leah saw that she could have no more children. So she gave her slave girl Zilpah to Jacob.
Genesis 32:22
During the night, Jacob got up and began moving his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven sons across the Jabbok River at the crossing.
Genesis 35:22
Israel stayed there for a short time. While he was there, Reuben slept with Israel's slave woman Bilhah. Israel heard about this, and he was very angry. These are the names of Jacob's twelve sons:
2 Samuel 5:13
David moved from Hebron to Jerusalem. In Jerusalem, he got more slave women and wives. So David had more children who were born in Jerusalem.
1 Kings 11:3
He had 700 wives who were the daughters of leaders from other nations. He also had 300 slave women who were like wives to him. His wives caused him to turn away from God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 their lives; it was pure wilful ignorance of the Father and himself;

because they have not known the Father nor me; though they boasted of their knowledge of God; yet they knew him not as the Father and sender of Christ, at least they would not own him as such: nor Jesus as the true Messiah, and sent of the Father, to redeem and save his people from their sins; and since they neither knew the Father, nor Christ, it is no wonder they did not know, own, and acknowledge, the disciples of Christ, but used them in the ill manner they did; their zeal was not according to knowledge, it was a blind and misguided one: and this is mentioned, not to extenuate or excuse their sin, though it shows they were not out of the reach of mercy, because they, as the apostle says of himself, "did it ignorantly in unbelief", 1 Timothy 1:13; but as an argument with the disciples to bear their ill usage with patience, and to pity them and pray for them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See John 15:21.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 16:3. Because they have not known the FatherJohn 15:25; John 15:25. Ignorance of the benevolence of GOD, and of the philanthropy of CHRIST, is the grand fountain whence all religious persecution and intolerance proceed.


 
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