Matthew 10:16-25 - Persecution Of Disciples Predicted

¹⁶ Behold, I send you forth like sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. ¹⁷ Beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the sanhedrins, and will beat you in their synagogues; ¹⁸ and they will lead you before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony unto them and the Gentiles. ¹⁹ And when they may deliver you, be not solicitous how or what you may speak: for it will be given unto you in that hour what you may say. ²⁰ For you are not those speaking, but the Spirit of your Father is speaking in you.

²¹ And brother will deliver brother unto death, and the father the child: and children will rise up against parents, and put them to death. ²² And you will be hated by all on account of my name: but he that persevereth unto the end, the same shall be saved. ²³ And when they may persecute you in this city, fly to another: for truly I say unto you, You may not complete the cities of Israel, until the Son of man may come. ²⁴ The disciple is not above his teacher, nor the servant above his lord. ²⁵ It is sufficient for the disciple that he may be as his teacher, and the servant, as his lord: if they call the landlord Beelzebul, how much more the inmates of his house?

⁹ Then they will deliver you into tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations on account of my name, ¹⁰ and then many will be offended; and they will betray one another, and hate one another. ¹¹ And many false prophets will arise and deceive many. ¹² And because iniquity doth abound, the divine love of many will grow cold. ¹³ But the one persevering to the end, the same shall be saved. ¹⁴ And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world, for a testimony to all the nations; and then the end shall come.

⁹ These are the beginnings of travails. But you take heed to yourselves: for they will deliver you into councils; and will beat you in the synagogues: and you shall stand before governors and kings on account of me, for a testimony unto them. ¹⁰ And it behooves the gospel first to be preached to all the nations. ¹¹ And when they may lead you forth, delivering you up, do not be solicitous what you may speak, nor meditate: but whatsoever may be given to you in that hour, speak this: for you are not those speaking, but the Holy Spirit. ¹² And brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father the child; and the children will rise up against the parents, and put them to death. ¹³ And you shall be hated by all on account of my name: but the one persevering to the end, the same shall be saved.

¹² And before all of these things, they will lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you into their synagogues and prisons, led before kings and governors on account of my name. ¹³ And it shall come to pass to you for a testimony. ¹⁴ Place it in your hearts, not to premeditate your defense: ¹⁵ for I will give to you mouth and wisdom, which all who are opposed to you will not be able to gainsay nor resist. ¹⁶ And you shall be delivered up also by your parents, and brothers, and relatives, and friends; and they will kill some of you. ¹⁷ And you shall be hated by all, on account of my name: ¹⁸ and not a hair from your head shall perish. ¹⁹ In your patience gain your souls.

¹ I have spoken these things to you, that you may not be offended. ² They will put you out of the synagogues: but the hour is coming, that every one killing you may think he is offering service to God. ³ And they will do these things, because they did not know the Father, nor me. ⁴ But I have spoken these things to you, that when the hour may come, you may remember them, that I did say them to you. But I said not these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.