Matthew 10:17

Jesus warns that His followers will face arrest, trials, and flogging. He prepares them so that persecution will not catch them off guard.

Cross-references · 24

• Mark 13:9So be on your guard. You will be delivered over to the councils and beaten in the synagogues. On My account you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them.
• Matt 23:34Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town.
• Luke 12:11When you are brought before synagogues, rulers, and authorities, do not worry about how to defend yourselves or what to say.
• Acts 26:11I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.
• John 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.
• Matt 5:22But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, ‘Raca,’ will be subject to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be subject to the fire of hell.
• Matt 24:9–10Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
• Acts 22:19‘Lord,’ I answered, ‘they know very well that in one synagogue after another I imprisoned and beat those who believed in You.
• Mic 7:5Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.
• Acts 5:26–42At that point, the captain went with the officers and brought the apostles—but not by force, for fear the people would stone them.
• Heb 11:36Still others endured mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
• Acts 14:5–6But when the Gentiles and Jews, together with their rulers, set out to mistreat and stone them,
• John 11:47Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.
• Deut 25:2–3If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants.
• 2 Tim 4:15You too should beware of him, for he has vigorously opposed our message.
• Mark 13:12Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
• Acts 4:6–22along with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and many others from the high priest’s family.
• 2 Cor 11:24–26Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.
• Phil 3:2Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh!
• Matt 26:59Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.
• Acts 23:1–22Paul looked directly at the Sanhedrin and said, “Brothers, I have conducted myself before God in all good conscience to this day.”
• Luke 21:12–13But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you. On account of My name they will deliver you to the synagogues and prisons, and they will bring you before kings and governors.
• Acts 17:14The brothers immediately sent Paul to the coast, but Silas and Timothy remained in Berea.
• Matt 20:19and will deliver Him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. And on the third day He will be raised to life.”

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