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.

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,

But before all this, men will arrest you and persecute you, and hand you over to synagogues and prisons and have you brought before kings and governors on my account.

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.

with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and all who belonged to the high priest's family.

Then the commander and his men went and brought them back, but without using violence, for they were afraid of being stoned by the people.

Paul looked steadily at the council and said, "Brothers, I have done my duty to God with a perfectly clear conscience up to this very day."

Councils

But I tell you that anyone who gets angry with his brother will have to answer to the court, and anyone who speaks contemptuously to his brother will have to answer to the great council, and anyone who says to his brother 'You cursed fool!' will have to answer for it in the fiery pit!

Now the high priests and the whole council were trying to get false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put him to death.

Then the high priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council, and they said, "What are we to do about the fact that this man is showing so many signs?

Scourge

and hand him over to the heathen to be mocked and flogged and crucified, and on the third day he will be raised to life."

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;

They were convinced by him, and they called the apostles in and had them flogged, and warned them not to speak about the name of Jesus, and then let them go.

And I said, 'Lord, they know that I used to go through one synagogue after another, and to imprison and flog those who believed in you,

and many a time in all the synagogues I had them punished, and tried to force them to say impious things. In my extreme rage against them I even pursued them to distant towns.

Five times I have been given one less than forty lashes, by the Jews.

Still others had to endure taunts and blows, and even fetters and prison.

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,