17
Be on guard, for there will be people who will hand you over to the local Sanhedrins and flog you in their synagogues.
18
On my account you will be brought before governors and kings as a testimony to them and to the Goyim.
19
But when they bring you to trial, do not worry about what to say or how to say it; when the time comes, you will be given what you should say.
20
For it will not be just you speaking, but the Spirit of your heavenly Father speaking through you.
21
"A brother will betray his brother to death, and a father his child; children will turn against their parents and have them put to death.
22
Everyone will hate you because of me, but whoever holds out till the end will be preserved from harm.
23
When you are persecuted in one town, run away to another. Yes indeed; I tell you, you will not finish going through the towns of Isra'el before the Son of Man comes.
24
"A talmid is not greater than his rabbi, a slave is not greater than his master.
25
It is enough for a talmid that he become like his rabbi, and a slave like his master. Now if people have called the head of the house Ba`al-Zibbul, how much more will they malign the members of his household!
26
So do not fear them; for there is nothing covered that will not be uncovered, or hidden that will not be known.
27
What I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim on the housetops.