17. But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.
18. Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.
19. But when they deliver you up, don’t be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.
20. For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
21. “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.
22. You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
23. But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel, until the Son of Man has come.
24. “A disciple is not above his rabbi, nor a servant above his lord.
25. It is enough for the disciple that he be like his rabbi, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!
26. Therefore don’t be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known.
27. What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.