¹⁶‘Lo, I do send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be ye therefore wise as the serpents, and simple as the doves. ¹⁷And, take ye heed of men, for they will give you up to sanhedrims, and in their synagogues they will scourge you, ¹⁸and before governors and kings ye shall be brought for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

¹⁹‘And whenever they may deliver you up, be not anxious how or what ye may speak, for it shall be given you in that hour what ye shall speak; ²⁰for ye are not the speakers, but the Spirit of your Father that is speaking in you.

²¹‘And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death, ²²and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end, he shall be saved.

²³‘And whenever they may persecute you in this city, flee to the other, for verily I say to you, ye may not have completed the cities of Israel till the Son of Man may come.

²⁴‘A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his lord; ²⁵sufficient to the disciple that he may be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord; if the master of the house they did call Beelzeboul, how much more those of his household?

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