Be on guard for they will deliver you up to courts. You will be beaten in the meeting places. You will be taken before governors and kings for a testimony to them for my sake.

When you are brought before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, do not worry about what you will say to answer them.

Even before all these things, they will capture you, and persecute you. You will be delivered to synagogues and prisons. You will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sake.

They will throw you out of the synagogues. Yes, the hour comes that whoever kills you will think that he offered service to God.

Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and as many as were of the family of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.

Then the captain with the officers brought them in without violence. They feared the people lest they should have been stoned.

Paul looked straight at the Council and said: Fellow Israelites! My conscience is perfectly clear about the way in which I have lived before God to this very day.

Councils

Now I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother [without cause] shall be guilty before the court. Whoever speaks to his brother with words of contempt shall receive condemnation before the Sanhedrin [Supreme Court]. Curse your brother and you will be guilty enough to be destroyed by fire, with the burning trash, at the Valley of Hinnom, outside of Jerusalem (Greek: Gehenna).

The chief priests and all the Sanhedrin were looking for false witness against Jesus. They wanted to put him to death.

The chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council. They asked what they should do. This man does many signs and miracles.

Scourge

They will turn him over to the heathen to be made sport of and to be whipped. He will be put to death on the stake. The third day he will come back from the dead.

Look! I am sending you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will torture and kill. Others you will torment and persecute from city to city.

If the wicked man deserves to be beaten, the judge will then make him lie down and be beaten in his presence. The number of lashes is according to his guilt.

They agreed with him and called the apostles. They beat them and commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus. Then they let them go.

I answered, 'Lord they know very well that I went to the synagogues and arrested and beat those who believe in you.

I punished them in every synagogue and tried to force them to recant their beliefs. I was exceedingly mad against them. I persecuted them even in strange cities.

Of the Jews five times I received forty stripes less one.

And others had trial of cruel mocking and scourging and bonds and imprisonment.

General references

If the wicked man deserves to be beaten, the judge will then make him lie down and be beaten in his presence. The number of lashes is according to his guilt.

When you are brought before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, do not worry about what you will say to answer them.