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

That is why the Wisdom of God said--"I will send to them Prophets and Apostles,

Remember, I am sending you out as my Messengers like sheep among wolves. So be as wise as serpents, and as blameless as doves.

While the rest, seizing his servants, ill-treated them and killed them.

That is why I send you Prophets, wise men, and Teachers of the Law, some of whom you will crucify and kill, and some of whom you will scourge in your Synagogues, and persecute from town to town;

When that time comes, they will give you up to persecution, and will put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations on account of my Name.

See to yourselves! They will betray you to courts of law; and you will be taken to Synagogues and beaten; and you will be brought up before governors and kings for my sake, that you may bear witness before them.

Remember what I said to you--'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have laid my Message to heart, they will lay yours to heart also.

They will expel you from their Synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will think that he is making an offering to God.

They arrested the Apostles and, as it was already evening, had them placed in custody till the next day.

At this the High Priest was roused to action, and he and all his supporters (who formed the party of the Sadducees), moved by jealousy,

And they stirred up the people, as well as the Councillors and the Teachers of the Law, and set upon Stephen, and arrested him, and brought him before the High Council.

At this, with a loud shout, they stopped their ears and all rushed upon him, forced him outside the city,

But Saul began to devastate the Church; he entered house after house, dragged out men and women alike, and threw them into prison.

He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him-- "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?"

It was at that time that King Herod began to ill-treat some of the members of the Church.

On this the mob rose as one man against them, and the Magistrates stripped them of their clothing and ordered them to be beaten with rods.

The whole city was stirred, and the people quickly collected, seized Paul, and dragged him out of the Temple, when the doors were immediately shut.

On the next day the Commanding Officer, wishing to find out the real reason why Paul was denounced by the Jews, had his chains taken off, and directed the Chief Priests and the whole of the High Council to assemble, and then took Paul down and brought him before them.

Five days afterwards the High Priest Ananias came down with some of the Councillors and a barrister named Tertullus. They laid an information with the Governor against Paul;

Three days after Festus had entered upon his province, he left Caesarea and went up to Jerusalem.

"I have been congratulating myself, King Agrippa," he said, "that it is before you that I have to make my defense to-day, with regard to all the charges brought against me by Jews,

The men who killed both the Lord Jesus and the Prophets, and persecuted us also. They do not try to please God, and they are enemies to all mankind,

Dear friends, do not be astonished at the fiery trials that you are passing through, to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.

Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. The Devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tempted, and may undergo persecution for ten days. Be faithful even to death, and I will give you the Crown of Life.

General references

Whenever they take you before the Synagogue Courts or the magistrates or other authorities, do not be anxious as to how you will defend yourselves, or what your defense will be, or what you will say;

Arrested the Apostles, and had them placed in custody.

"I should like to hear this man myself," Agrippa said to Festus. "You shall hear him to-morrow," Festus answered.