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 watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.
• Matt 23:34Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;
• Luke 12:11When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don’t be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say;
• Acts 26:11Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
• John 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
• Matt 5:22But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment; and whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.
• Matt 24:9–10Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.
• Acts 22:19I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.
• Mic 7:5Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!
• Acts 5:26–42Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.
• Heb 11:36Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
• Acts 14:5–6When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,
• John 11:47The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
• Deut 25:2–3It shall be, if the wicked man is worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.
• 2 Tim 4:15of whom you also must beware; for he greatly opposed our words.
• Mark 13:12“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.
• Acts 4:6–22Annas the high priest was there, with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and as many as were relatives of the high priest.
• 2 Cor 11:24–26Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one.
• Phil 3:2Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.
• Matt 26:59Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;
• Acts 23:1–22Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”
• Luke 21:12–13But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.
• Acts 17:14Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.
• Matt 20:19and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up.”

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