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And if a home or town refuses to welcome you or listen to you, leave that place and shake its dust off your feet.
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I tell you the truth, on the Judgment Day it will be better for the towns of Sodom and Gomorrahn than for the people of that town.
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"Listen, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. So be as smart as snakes and as innocent as doves.
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Be careful of people, because they will arrest you and take you to court and whip you in their synagogues.
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Because of me you will be taken to stand before governors and kings, and you will tell them and the non-Jewish people about me.
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When you are arrested, don't worry about what to say or how to say it. At that time you will be given the things to say.
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It will not really be you speaking but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
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"Brothers will give their own brothers to be killed, and fathers will give their own children to be killed. Children will fight against their own parents and have them put to death.
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All people will hate you because you follow me, but those people who keep their faith until the end will be saved.
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When you are treated badly in one city, run to another city. I tell you the truth, you will not finish going through all the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
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"A student is not better than his teacher, and a servant is not better than his master.