Passage
They will put you out of the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.
John 16:2 (LSB)
Nearby Context
John 16:1 “These things I have spoken to you so that you may be kept from stumbling.
John 16:2 They will put you out of the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.
John 16:3 These things they will do because they did not know the Father or Me.
John 16:4 But these things I have spoken to you, so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you of them. These things I did not say to you at the beginning, because I was with you.
Study Lenses
The verse centers on "synagogue", "hour", "coming", "everyone", "kills", "think", "offering", and "service". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "synagogue" and "hour", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The nearby context moves from verse 1's "These things I have spoken to you..." into verse 3's "These things they will do because they...", so "synagogue" and "hour" belong inside that flow. In John context, the local focus is the identity of Jesus, new birth, eternal life, and belief and unbelief.
A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "synagogue" and "hour" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.