Lesson: When Persecution Comes<br>
Reading: Ye should not be offended<br>
Reference: John 15:20–21; 16:1–4<br><br>
John 15:20: Remember 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.<br>
John 15:21: But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.<br>
John 16:1: These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.<br>
John 16:2: They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.<br>
John 16:3: And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.<br>
John 16:4: But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.<br>
(KJV)<br>