Be on your guard against men, for they will turn you over to the courts and will flog you in their synagogues,

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

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,

Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will flock.

Then Jesus said to them, "You will all stumble over me tonight, for the Scripture says, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

and they will make sport of Him, and spit on Him, and flog Him, and kill Him, but three days after He will rise again."

Now there were some shepherds in the same neighborhood, living in the open fields and keeping watch over their flock by night.

Stop being afraid, my little flock, for your Father has gladly chosen to give you the kingdom.

Then they asked Him, "Where, Lord, will this be?" And He said to them, "Wherever there is carrion the vultures will flock."

and then they will flog Him and kill Him, but on the third day He will rise again."

So I will flog Him and let Him go."

Then a third time he spoke to them, "Why, what wrong has He done? I have found nothing in Him deserving the death penalty. So I will flog Him and let Him go."

The hired man, who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away, and the wolf carries off some of the sheep and scatters the flock.

I have other sheep too that do not belong to this fold. I must lead them too, and they will listen to my voice, and all my sheep will become one flock with one shepherd.

Take care of yourselves and of the whole flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, so as to continue to be shepherds of the church of God, which He bought with His own blood.

Because I know that after I have gone violent wolves will break in among you and will not spare the flock.

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,

But when they had tied him for the flogging, Paul asked the captain who was standing by, "Is it lawful for you to flog a Roman, and one who is uncondemned at that?"

What soldier ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat any of its grapes? Who shepherds a flock and does not drink any of the milk the flock produces?

be shepherds of the flock of God that is among you, not as though you had to but of your own free will, not from the motive of personal profit but freely,

and not as domineering over those in your charge but proving yourselves models for the flock to imitate;