14. If anyone refuses to welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet as you leave that house or city.
15. I assure you that it will be more bearable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on Judgment Day than it will be for that city.
16. “Look, I’m sending you as sheep among wolves. Therefore, be wise as snakes and innocent as doves.
17. Watch out for people—because they will hand you over to councils and they will beat you in their synagogues.
18. They will haul you in front of governors and even kings because of me so that you may give your testimony to them and to the Gentiles.
19. Whenever they hand you over, don’t worry about how to speak or what you will say, because what you can say will be given to you at that moment.
20. You aren’t doing the talking, but the Spirit of my Father is doing the talking through you.
21. Brothers and sisters will hand each other over to be executed. A father will turn his child in. Children will defy their parents and have them executed.
22. Everyone will hate you on account of my name. But whoever stands firm until the end will be saved.
23. Whenever they harass you in one city, escape to the next, because I assure that you will not go through all the cities of Israel before the Human One comes.
24. “Disciples aren’t greater than their teacher, and slaves aren’t greater than their master.