3And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)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 to expect the world’s hatred; now here in these verses, I. He gives them a reason why he alarmed them thus with the expectation of trouble: These things have I spoken unto you, that you should not be…
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