2. There is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, and nothing hidden that will not be made known.
3. Therefore, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have spoken in private rooms will be proclaimed from the housetops.
4. “I say to you, My friends, you should not be afraid of those who kill the body, since after this they have nothing more they can do.
5. But I will show you whom you should fear. Fear the One who, after the killing, has authority to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear this One!
6. “Aren’t five sparrows being sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten before God.
7. Indeed, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows.
8. Now I tell you, whoever acknowledges Me before men, the Son of Man also will acknowledge him before the angels of God.
9. But the one who denies Me before men will be denied before the angels of God.
10. And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the one who slanders the Ruach ha-Kodesh will not be forgiven.
11. And when they bring you to the synagogues, rulers, and authorities, do not worry about how you should defend yourself or what you should say,
12. because the Ruach ha-Kodesh will teach you at that time what is necessary to say.”
13. Then someone from the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
14. But Yeshua said to him, “Man, who made Me a judge or arbitrator over you?”