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“But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.
Verse 9. In the synagogues, or assemblies. The word is here taken for assemblies of judges, and of justice.—For a testimony to them; that is that you may bear witness of me and my doctrine, and also against them. V.
The Good News must first be preached to all the nations.
When they lead you away and deliver you up, don’t be anxious beforehand or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.
“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.
You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.