¹⁶“Look, I’m sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as serpents and as innocent as doves.^a ¹⁷Beware of them, because they will hand you over to local courts^B and flog you in their synagogues.^b ¹⁸You will even be brought before governors and kings because of me, to bear witness to them and to the Gentiles.^c ¹⁹But when they hand you over, don’t worry about how or what you are to speak.^d For you will be given what to say at that hour, ²⁰because it isn’t you speaking, but the Spirit^e of your Father is speaking through you.^f

²¹“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise up against parents and have them put to death.^g ²²You will be hated by everyone because of my name.^h But the one who endures to the end will be saved.ⁱ ²³When they persecute you in one town, flee to another.^j For truly I tell you, you will not have gone through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes. ²⁴A disciple^C is not above his teacher, or a slave above his master.^k ²⁵It is enough for a disciple to become like his teacher and a slave like his master. If they called the head of the house ‘Beelzebul,’ how much more the members of his household!^l

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Cross references

a Gn 3:1; Lk 10:3; Rm 16:19; Php 2:15
b Mk 13:9,11; Lk 12:11–12; Ac 5:40; 26:11
c Mt 28:19; Rm 1:5; Gl 1:16
d Ex 4:12; Nm 23:5; Dt 18:18; Mt 6:25
e Ps 51:11; Jn 1:33; Ac 2:4; Rm 8:9; Gl 5:25; Ti 3:5
f Lk 12:12; Ac 4:8; 13:9; 2Co 13:3
g Mc 7:6; Mt 10:35–36; Mk 13:12
h Mt 24:9; Lk 21:17; Jn 15:18
i Mt 24:13; Mk 13:13; Jn 12:12–13
j Mt 12:15; Ac 8:1; 9:25; 14:6; 17:10
k Lk 6:40; Jn 13:16; 15:20
l 2Kg 1:2; Mt 12:24,27; Mk 3:22; Lk 11:15,18–19