But watch out for yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils, and you will be beaten in the synagogues. You will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.

Now when they bring you before the synagogues and rulers and authorities, do not worry about how or what you should answer, or what you are to say;

But before all this, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons. And you will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sake.

They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.

and Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family.

Then the captain went along with the officers and brought them back without violence, for they were afraid of the people, that they might be stoned.

And Paul, looking intently at the council, said, "Brethren, I have lived my life before God in all good conscience up to this day."

Councils

But I say to you that anyone who is angry with his brother shall be subject to judgment. And whoever says to his brother, 'Raca,' shall be answerable to the council. But whoever says, 'You fool!' shall be in danger of the fire of hell.

Now the chief priests and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death,

Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we to do? For this man performs many signs.

Scourge

and deliver him to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day."

Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from town to town,

So they took his advice, and they called the apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

And I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that in one synagogue after another I used to imprison and beat those who believed in you.

And as I punished them often in all the synagogues, I tried to force them to blaspheme; and being furiously enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.

And others experienced mockings and scourgings, yes, also chains and imprisonment.

General references

Now when they bring you before the synagogues and rulers and authorities, do not worry about how or what you should answer, or what you are to say;