20Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
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Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.
But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.
And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-25)Here Christ discourses concerning hatred , which is the character and genius of the devil’s kingdom, as love is of the kingdom of Christ. Observe here, I. Who they are in whom this hatred is found—the world, the children of this world, as distinguished from the children of God; those who are in the interests of the god of this world, whose image they bear, and whose power they are subject to; all…
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