But take care: for they will give you up to the Sanhedrins; and in Synagogues you will be whipped; and you will be taken before rulers and kings because of me, for a sign to them.

And when they take you before the Synagogues and the authorities and the rulers, take no thought about what answers you will give, or what you will say:

But before all this, they will take you and be very cruel to you, giving you up to the Synagogues and to prisons, taking you before kings and rulers, because of my name.

They will put you out of the Synagogues: yes, the time is coming when whoever puts you to death will have the belief that he is doing God's pleasure.

And Annas, the high priest, was there, and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all the relations of the high priest.

Then the captain and some of the police went and took them, but not violently, for fear that they might be stoned by the people.

And Paul, looking fixedly at the Sanhedrin, said, My brothers, my life has been upright before God till this day.

Councils

But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be in danger of being judged; and he who says to his brother, Raca, will be in danger from the Sanhedrin; and whoever says, You foolish one, will be in danger of the hell of fire.

Now the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin were looking for false witness against Jesus, so that they might put him to death;

Then the high priests and the Pharisees had a meeting and said, What are we doing? This man is doing a number of signs.

Scourge

And will give him up to the Gentiles to be made sport of and to be whipped and to be put to death on the cross: and the third day he will come back again from the dead.

For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town;

And if the wrongdoer is to undergo punishment by whipping, the judge will give orders for him to go down on his face and be whipped before him, the number of the blows being in relation to his crime.

And he seemed to them to be right: and they sent for the Apostles, and, after having them whipped and giving them orders to give no teaching in the name of Jesus, they let them go.

And I said, Lord, they themselves have knowledge that I went through the Synagogues putting in prison and whipping all those who had faith in you:

And I gave them punishment frequently, in all the Synagogues, forcing them to say things against God; and burning with passion against them, I went after them even into far-away towns.

Five times the Jews gave me forty blows but one.

And others were tested by being laughed at or by blows, and even with chains and prisons:

General references

And if the wrongdoer is to undergo punishment by whipping, the judge will give orders for him to go down on his face and be whipped before him, the number of the blows being in relation to his crime.

And when they take you before the Synagogues and the authorities and the rulers, take no thought about what answers you will give, or what you will say: