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 13:9But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.
• Matt 23:34Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
• Luke 12:11And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:
• Acts 26:11And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
• John 16:2They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
• Matt 5:22But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
• Matt 24:9–10Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
• Acts 22:19And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:
• Mic 7:5Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
• Acts 5:26–42Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.
• Heb 11:36And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
• Acts 14:5–6And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also of the Jews with their rulers, to use them despitefully, and to stone them,
• John 11:47Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
• Deut 25:2–3And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.
• 2 Tim 4:15Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words.
• Mark 13:12Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.
• Acts 4:6–22And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.
• 2 Cor 11:24–26Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
• Phil 3:2Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
• Matt 26:59Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
• Acts 23:1–22And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.
• Luke 21:12–13But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name’s sake.
• Acts 17:14And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.
• Matt 20:19And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.

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