These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, [ auton (G846 ) homologeesee (G3670 ) Christon (G5547 ), or 'own Him as Christ,'] he should be put out of the synagogue, х aposunagoogos (G656) geneetai (G1096)] - not only expelled, but 'become' and be held 'unsynagogued,' or, as we say, 'unchurched.' See John 12:42; John 16:2.