Matthew 10:17

Persecution Of Disciples Predicted

¹⁶ "Here I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. So you must be wise like serpents, and guileless like doves. ¹⁷  But be on your guard against men, for they will give you up to their courts, and have you flogged in their synagogues, ¹⁸ and you will be brought before governors and kings on my account, to bear your testimony before them and the heathen.

Be on Your Guard

O God

Sanhedrin

Mark 13:9

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.

Matthew 23:34

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;

Matthew 5:22

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!

Luke 12:11

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,

Acts 26:11

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.

Acts 22:19

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,

Matthew 20:19

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."

Matthew 24:9-10

Then they will hand you over to persecution and they will put you to death, and you will be hated by all the heathen because you bear my name.

Matthew 26:59

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

Mark 13:12

Brother will give up brother to be put to death, and the father his child, and children will turn against their parents and have them put to death.

Luke 21:12-13

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.

John 11:47

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?

John 16:2

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.

Acts 4:6-22

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

Acts 5:26-42

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.

Acts 14:5-6

And when there was a movement on the part of both the heathen and the Jews with the authorities to insult and stone them,

Acts 17:14

Then the brothers immediately sent Paul off to the coast, while Silas and Timothy stayed behind.

Acts 23:1-22

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."

2 Corinthians 11:24-26

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

Philippians 3:2

Look out for those dogs, those mischief-makers, with their amputation!

2 Timothy 4:15

You too must be on your guard against him, for he vehemently opposed my teaching.

Hebrews 11:36

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