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But before all these things they shall set their hands on you, and shall pursue you, betaking into synagogues and keepings, drawing you to kings and to justices [+betaking into synagogues and keepings, either prisons, drawing to kings and mayors, or justices], for my name;
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but it shall fall to you into witnessing.
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Therefore put ye in your hearts, not to think before, how ye shall answer;
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for I shall give to you mouth and wisdom, to which all your adversaries shall not be able to against-stand, and gainsay [and against-say].
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And ye shall be taken of father, and mother [Soothly ye shall be betrayed of father, and mother], and brethren, and cousins, and friends, and by death they shall torment [some] of you;
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and ye shall be in hate to all men for my name. [and ye shall be hated of all men for my name.]
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And an hair of your head shall not perish;
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in your patience ye shall wield your souls.
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But when ye shall see Jerusalem be environed with an host, then know ye, that the desolation of it shall approach. [Forsooth when ye shall see Jerusalem environed of an host of battle, then know ye, that the desolation thereof shall nigh.]
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Then they that be in Judaea, flee to the mountains; and they that be in the middle of it, go away; and they that be in the countries, enter not into it.
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For these be the days of vengeance, that all things that be written, be fulfilled.