Lukas 21:14

14 Therefore, keep in your levavot (hearts) not to prepare to defend yourselves.

Lukas 21:14 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 21:14

Settle it therefore in your hearts
Resolve on this in your minds, and let it be a rule never to be departed from: not to meditate before what you shall answer;
not to sit down, and study a form of words, and scheme of things, what to reply to the ensnaring questions, that may be thought would be asked, by kings and rulers, or any of the judges before whom they should be brought; it being natural for persons, especially of a low life, to be timorous and fearful, to appear before such great personages, and to be thoughtful and solicitous what to say to any question that may be asked them; (See Gill on Matthew 10:19).

Lukas 21:14 In-Context

12 But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and bring redifot (persecutions) on you, handing you over to the shuls and the batei hasohar (prisons), being led away before melachim (kings) and moshelim (governors) because of my Name (Yehoshua, Yeshua).

13 It will turn out for you to be an opportunity for being an eidus (witness) to the edut (testimony).

14 Therefore, keep in your levavot (hearts) not to prepare to defend yourselves.

15 For I will give to you a peh (mouth) and chochmah which none of your mitnaggedim will be able to resist or to contradict.

16 And you will be handed over also by horim and achim and krovey mishpachot (relatives) and chaverim (friends), and they will have some of you executed and you will die al kiddush ha-Shem,