Matthew 10:17

Persecution Of Disciples Predicted

¹⁶ "Listen! I am sending you out as sheep surrounded by wolves. So you must be sensible like serpents and guileless like doves. ¹⁷  Be on your guard against men, for they will turn you over to the courts and will flog you in their synagogues, ¹⁸ and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness to them and the heathen.

Be on Your Guard

O God

Sanhedrin

Mark 13:9

So you must be on the lookout for yourselves; they will turn you over to courts, and to synagogues where you will be beaten, and you must appear before governors and kings for my sake, to testify to them.

Matthew 23:34

Therefore, I am going to send you prophets, wise men, and scribes, some of whom you will kill -- even crucify -- and some you will flog in your synagogues and chase from city to city,

Matthew 5:22

But I say to you: "Everyone who harbors malice against his brother, will have to answer to the court, and whoever speaks contemptuously to his brother, will have to answer to the supreme court; and whoever says to his brother, 'You cursed fool? will have to pay the penalty in the pit of torture.

Luke 12:11

Now when they are bringing you before the synagogues or the magistrates or the authorities, never worry about how to defend yourselves, or what to say,

Acts 26:11

I had them punished and tried to force them to use abusive language; in my extreme fury against them I continued to pursue them even into distant towns.

Acts 22:19

So I said, 'Lord, they know for themselves that from one synagogue to another I used to imprison and flog those who believed in you,

Matthew 20:19

and turn Him over to the heathen to mock and flog and crucify, but on the third day He will rise again."

Matthew 24:9-10

At that time they will turn you over to torture, and will murder you, 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, to have Him put to death;

Mark 13:12

One brother will turn another over to death, and a father his child, and children will take a stand against their parents and have them put to death.

Luke 21:12-13

But before all this takes place, people will arrest you and persecute you, and turn you over to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sake.

John 11:47

So the high priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council, and began to say, "What are we to do? For this man is certainly performing many wonder-works.

John 16:2

Men will turn you out of their synagogues. Yes, indeed, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think that he is rendering a religious service to God.

Acts 4:6-22

met in Jerusalem, including Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and all that were members of the high priest's family.

Acts 5:26-42

Then the military commander went with his attendants and brought them back, but without any violence, for they were afraid of being pelted with stones by the people.

Acts 14:5-6

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

Acts 17:14

Then the brothers at once sent Paul off to the coast, while Silas and Timothy stayed on there.

Acts 23:1-22

Paul fixed his eyes upon the council and said, "Brothers, with a clear conscience I have done my duty to God up to this very day."

2 Corinthians 11:24-26

Five times I have taken thirty-nine lashes from the Jews,

Philippians 3:2

Look out for those dogs, those mischief-makers, those self-mutilators!

2 Timothy 4:15

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

Hebrews 11:36

Still others stood the test of taunts and tortures, and even chains and prisons.