Thematic Bible: Of criminal courts
Thematic Bible
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'Because of this, lo, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, and of them ye will kill and crucify, and of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will pursue from city to city;
and in every synagogue, often punishing them, I was constraining them to speak evil, being also exceedingly mad against them, I was also persecuting them even unto strange cities.
And, take ye heed of men, for they will give you up to sanhedrims, and in their synagogues they will scourge you,
and I said, Lord, they -- they know that I was imprisoning and was scourging in every synagogue those believing on thee;