João 16:3

3 Farão essas coisas porque não conheceram nem o Pai, nem a mim.

João 16:3 Meaning and Commentary

John 16:3

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.

João 16:3 In-Context

1 “Eu tenho dito tudo isso para que vocês não venham a tropeçar.

2 Vocês serão expulsos das sinagogas; de fato, virá o tempo quando quem os matar pensará que está prestando culto a Deus.

3 Farão essas coisas porque não conheceram nem o Pai, nem a mim.

4 Estou dizendo isto para que, quando chegar a hora, lembrem-se de que eu os avisei. Não disse isso a vocês no princípio, porque eu estava com vocês.

5 “Agora que vou para aquele que me enviou, nenhum de vocês me pergunta: ‘Para onde vais?’