Luke 21:12

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Summary

But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.

Before

General references

Luke 12:11

Acts 5:18

Acts 25:22

Bible References

Before

This is why the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send prophets and apostles to them, and some of them they will kill and some they will persecute'??50 so that this age may be charged with the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the creation of the world,

"Here I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. So you must be wise like serpents, and guileless like doves.

and the rest seized his slaves, and ill treated them and killed them.

This is why I am going to send you prophets, wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and hunt from one town to another;

Then they will hand you over to persecution and they will put you to death, and you will be hated by all the heathen because you bear my name.

But you must be on your guard; they will hand you over to courts and you will be taken into synagogues and beaten, and you will be brought before governors and kings on my account, to testify to them.

Remember what I said to you: No slave is greater than his master. If they have persecuted me they will persecute you too. If they have observed my teaching, they will observe yours too.

They will exclude you from their synagogues; why, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is doing religious service to God.

They arrested them, and as it was already evening, they shut them up until next morning.

This aroused the high priest and all his supporters, the party of the Sadducees, and filled them with jealousy,

They aroused the people, the elders, and the scribes, and they set upon him and seized him, and brought him before the council.

But they uttered a great shout and stopped their ears, and they rushed upon him all together,

But Saul harassed the church. He went into one house after another, and dragging out men and women, put them in prison.

and he fell to the ground. Then he heard a voice saying to him, "Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?"

About that time King Herod laid violent hands upon some who belonged to the church.

The crowd also joined in the attack on them, and the magistrates had them stripped and beaten.

The whole city was thrown into confusion, and the people hurried together, and seized Paul and dragged him outside of the Temple, the gates of which were immediately shut.

The next day, as he wished to find out the real reason why the Jews denounced him, he had him unbound and ordered the high priests and the whole council to assemble, and took Paul down and brought him before them.

Five days later, the high priest Ananias came down with some of the elders and an attorney named Tertullus, and they presented their case against Paul before the governor.

Three days after his arrival in the province, Festus went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem,

"I think myself fortunate, King Agrippa," said he, "that it is before you that I am to defend myself today against all the things the Jews charge me with,

who killed the Lord Jesus and persecuted the prophets and us; who displease God, and in their hostility to all mankind

Dear friends, do not be surprised that a test of fire is being applied to you, as though a strange thing were happening to you,

Do not be afraid of what you are going to suffer. See! The devil is going to put some of you into prison to be tested there, and for ten days to endure persecution. Prove faithful even unto death and I will give you the crown of life.

General references

When they bring you before the synagogues or the magistrates or the authorities, you must have no anxiety about how to defend yourselves or what to say,

and they had the apostles arrested and put in the common jail.

"I should like to hear the man myself," Agrippa said to Festus. "You shall hear him tomorrow," Festus answered.