But take heed to yourselves: for they will deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye will be beaten: and ye will be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.

And when they bring you to the synagogues, and before magistrates, and powers, be not solicitous how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:

But before all these they will 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.

They shall put you out of the synagogues: yes, the time cometh, that whoever killeth you, will think that he doeth God service.

And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were assembled at Jerusalem.

Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.

And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men, brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.

Councils

But I say to you, That whoever is angry with his brother without a cause, shall be in danger of the judgment: and whoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell-fire.

Now the chief priests and elders, and all the council, sought false testimony against Jesus, to put him to death;

Then the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council, and said, What do we? for this man performeth many miracles.

Scourge

And will deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he will rise again.

Wherefore behold, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and some of them ye will kill and crucify, and some of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:

And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.

And to him they assented: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned, and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:

And I punished them often in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

From the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one.

And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, and, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

General references

And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.

And when they bring you to the synagogues, and before magistrates, and powers, be not solicitous how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say: