KJV King James Version
And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
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John 15:27
And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And you also must testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning.
WEB World English Bible
You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
ASV American Standard Version
and ye also bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and ye also do testify, because from the beginning ye are with me.
Surrounding context — John 15
24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
25 But [this cometh to pass], that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, [even] the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
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1 John 4:14And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son [to be] the Saviour of the world.John 21:24This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true.Acts 10:39-42And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:Luke 24:48And ye are witnesses of these things.Luke 1:2-3Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;1 John 1:1-2That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;Acts 23:11And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.Acts 4:20For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.Acts 1:8But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.1 Peter 5:1The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:1 Peter 5:12By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.John 19:35And he that saw [it] bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.Acts 18:5And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews [that] Jesus [was] Christ.Acts 13:31And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.Revelation 1:2Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.Acts 1:21-22Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,Revelation 1:9I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.2 Peter 1:16-18For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
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