Matthew 10:17

Beware of men (prosecete apo twn anqrwpwn). Ablative case with apo. Hold your mind (noun understood) away from. The article with anqrwpwn points back to lukwn (wolves) in Luke 10:16 .

To councils (ei sunedria). The local courts of justice in every Jewish town. The word is an old one from Herodotus on for any deliberative body (concilium). The same word is used for the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem. In their synagogues (en toi sunagwgai autwn). Here not merely as the place of assembly for worship, but as an assembly of justice exercising discipline as when the man born blind was cast out of the synagogue ( John 9:35 ). They were now after the exile in every town of any size where Jews were.