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John 16:3 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 3. 3And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
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Role in This Section
This verse serves as the fifth turn in The Paraclete and Disciples Bear Witness amid Expulsion, where it connects a reason or result to the developing claim: “And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me”.
Read It With
- John 15:26-16:4
Read John 16:3 with 15:26-16:4. This verse serves as the fifth turn in The Paraclete and Disciples Bear Witness amid Expulsion, where it connects a reason or result to the developing claim: “And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me”. The controlling movement is: Jesus says the Paraclete from the Father will testify and the disciples must testify from firsthand presence, then warns of expulsion and lethal religious violence so they will not fall away when it comes.
Why It Needs Context
This verse serves as the fifth turn in The Paraclete and Disciples Bear Witness amid Expulsion, where it connects a reason or result to the developing claim: “And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me”. Read as the fifth turn in The Paraclete and Disciples Bear Witness amid Expulsion, its subject, reply, connective, or narrated force depends on John 15:26-16:4: Jesus says the Paraclete from the Father will testify and the disciples must testify from firsthand presence, then warns of expulsion and lethal religious violence so they will not fall away when it comes.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read John 15:26-16:4 — The Paraclete and Disciples Bear Witness amid ExpulsionSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph flags, supplied-word markup, and coverage.
Exact location: John 15:26-16:4, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording, sentence relations, and critical-text reading checked independently of the KJV.
Exact location: Faithlife SBLGNT official repository, data/sblgnt/text/John.txt, 15:26-16:4
Open the John Greek text file ↗Translation and textual notes
NET Bible — John with translators' and textual notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2005–2026 online edition
Supports: Verse-level syntax, older-English clarification, material variants, background, and alternatives.
Exact location: NET Bible John PDF, John 15:26-16:4 and attached translator, study, and textual notes
Open the official NET John PDF ↗