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

because of this also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets, and apostles, and some of them they shall kill and persecute,

'Lo, I do send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be ye therefore wise as the serpents, and simple as the doves.

and the rest, having laid hold on his servants, did insult and slay them.

'Because of this, lo, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, and of them ye will kill and crucify, and of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will pursue from city to city;

then they shall deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated by all the nations because of my name;

'And take ye heed to yourselves, for they shall deliver you up to sanhedrims, and to synagogues, ye shall be beaten, and before governors and kings ye shall be set for my sake, for a testimony to them;

'Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep;

out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God;

and they laid hands upon them, and did put them in custody unto the morrow, for it was evening already;

And having risen, the chief priest, and all those with him -- being the sect of the Sadducees -- were filled with zeal,

They did stir up also the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and having come upon him, they caught him, and brought him to the sanhedrim;

And they, having cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and did rush with one accord upon him,

and Saul was making havoc of the assembly, into every house entering, and haling men and women, was giving them up to prison;

and having fallen upon the earth, he heard a voice saying to him, 'Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute?'

And about that time, Herod the king put forth his hands, to do evil to certain of those of the assembly,

And the multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates having torn their garments from them, were commanding to beat them with rods,

All the city also was moved and there was a running together of the people, and having laid hold on Paul, they were drawing him out of the temple, and immediately were the doors shut,

and on the morrow, intending to know the certainty wherefore he is accused by the Jews, he did loose him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all their sanhedrim to come, and having brought down Paul, he set him before them.

And after five days came down the chief priest Ananias, with the elders, and a certain orator -- Tertullus, and they made manifest to the governor the things against Paul;

Festus, therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea,

'Concerning all things of which I am accused by Jews, king Agrippa, I have thought myself happy, being about to make a defence before thee to-day,

who did both put to death the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and did persecute us, and God they are not pleasing, and to all men are contrary,

Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you,

'Be not afraid of the things that thou art about to suffer; lo, the devil is about to cast of you to prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days; become thou faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of the life.

General references

'And when they bring you before the synagogues, and the rulers, and the authorities, be not anxious how or what ye may reply, or what ye may say,

and laid their hands upon the apostles, and did put them in a public prison;

And Agrippa said unto Festus, 'I was wishing also myself to hear the man;' and he said, 'To-morrow thou shalt hear him;'