And this is, in effect, what God spoke [to him]: That his descendants would be aliens (strangers) in a foreign land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

And the following day he shewed himself to them as they were fighting, and urged them to peace, saying, My friends, ye are brethren; wherefore do ye ill treat one another?

Now, about that time, King Herod arrested certain members of the Church, in order to ill-treat them;

And when there was a strong effort made both by the Gentiles and Jews with their rulers to ill-treat and stone them,