But before all this, they will take you and be very cruel to you, giving you up to the Synagogues and to prisons, taking you before kings and rulers, because of my name.

In blows, in prisons, in attacks, in hard work, in watchings, in going without food;

Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking foolishly) I am more so; I have had more experience of hard work, of prisons, of blows more than measure, of death.

And others were tested by being laughed at or by blows, and even with chains and prisons: