15. I can guarantee this truth: Judgment day will be better for Sodom and Gomorrah than for that city.
16. “I’m sending you out like sheep among wolves. So be as cunning as snakes but as innocent as doves.
17. Watch out for people who will hand you over to the Jewish courts and whip you in their synagogues.
18. Because of me you will even be brought in front of governors and kings to testify to them and to everyone in the world.
19. When they hand you over ⌊to the authorities⌋, don’t worry about what to say or how to say it. When the time comes, you will be given what to say.