Matthew 10:16-25 - Persecution Of Disciples Predicted

¹⁶ 'Lo, I do send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be ye therefore wise as the serpents, and simple as the doves. ¹⁷ And, take ye heed of men, for they will give you up to sanhedrims, and in their synagogues they will scourge you, ¹⁸ and before governors and kings ye shall be brought for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations. ¹⁹ 'And whenever they may deliver you up, be not anxious how or what ye may speak, for it shall be given you in that hour what ye shall speak; ²⁰ for ye are not the speakers, but the Spirit of your Father that is speaking in you.

²¹ 'And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death, ²² and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end, he shall be saved. ²³ 'And whenever they may persecute you in this city, flee to the other, for verily I say to you, ye may not have completed the cities of Israel till the Son of Man may come. ²⁴ 'A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his lord; ²⁵ sufficient to the disciple that he may be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord; if the master of the house they did call Beelzeboul, how much more those of his household?

⁹ then they shall deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated by all the nations because of my name; ¹⁰ and then shall many be stumbled, and they shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another. ¹¹ 'And many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead many astray; ¹² and because of the abounding of the lawlessness, the love of the many shall become cold; ¹³ but he who did endure to the end, he shall be saved; ¹⁴ and this good news of the reign shall be proclaimed in all the world, for a testimony to all the nations; and then shall the end arrive.

⁹ 'And take ye heed to yourselves, for they shall deliver you up to sanhedrims, and to synagogues, ye shall be beaten, and before governors and kings ye shall be set for my sake, for a testimony to them; ¹⁰ and to all the nations it behoveth first that the good news be proclaimed. ¹¹ 'And when they may lead you, delivering up, be not anxious beforehand what ye may speak, nor premeditate, but whatever may be given to you in that hour, that speak ye, for it is not ye who are speaking, but the Holy Spirit. ¹² 'And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death, ¹³ and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end -- he shall be saved.

¹² and before all these, they shall lay on you their hands, and persecute, delivering up to synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and governors for my name's sake; ¹³ and it shall become to you for a testimony. ¹⁴ 'Settle, then, to your hearts, not to meditate beforehand to reply, ¹⁵ for I will give to you a mouth and wisdom that all your opposers shall not be able to refute or resist. ¹⁶ 'And ye shall be delivered up also by parents, and brothers, and kindred, and friends, and they shall put of you to death; ¹⁷ and ye shall be hated by all because of my name -- ¹⁸ and a hair out of your head shall not perish; ¹⁹ in your patience possess ye your souls.

¹ 'These things I have spoken to you, that ye may not be stumbled, ² out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God; ³ and these things they will do to you, because they did not know the Father, nor me. ⁴ But these things I have spoken to you, that when the hour may come, ye may remember them, that I said them to you, and these things to you from the beginning I did not say, because I was with you;