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Future Persecutions(A)

16 “Pay attention, now! I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. So be as cunning as serpents and as innocent as doves. 17 Watch out for people who will hand you over to the local councils and whip you in their synagogues. 18 You will be brought before governors and kings because of me, to testify to them and to unbelievers.[a] 19 When they hand you over, don’t worry about how you are to speak[b] or what you are to say, because in that hour what you are to say will be given to you. 20 It won’t be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through[c] you.

21 “Brother will hand brother over for execution, and a father his child. Children will rebel against parents and have them put to death. 22 You will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the person who endures to the end will be saved. 23 So when they persecute you in one town, flee to the next, because I tell all of you[d] with certainty that you will not have gone through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

24 “A disciple is not above his teacher, and a slave is not above his master. 25 It is enough for a disciple to be like his teacher and a slave to be like his master. If they have called the head of the house Beelzebul,[e] how much more will they do the same to[f] those of his household!”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 10:18 Lit. gentiles; i.e. unbelieving non-Jews
  2. Matthew 10:19 The Gk. lacks you are to speak
  3. Matthew 10:20 Or in
  4. Matthew 10:23 The Gk. pronoun you is pl.
  5. Matthew 10:25 The name means Lord of the Flies; i.e. Satan
  6. Matthew 10:25 The Gk. lacks will they do the same to

Future Persecution, Apostasy, and Evangelism(A)

“Then they’ll hand you over to suffer[a] and will kill you, and you’ll be hated by all the nations[b] on account of my name. 10 Then many people will fall away, will betray one another, and will hate one another. 11 Many false prophets will appear and deceive many people, 12 and because lawlessness will increase, the love of many people will grow cold. 13 But the person who endures to the end will be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the inhabited world as a testimony to all nations,[c] and then the end will come.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 24:9 Or tribulation
  2. Matthew 24:9 Or gentiles
  3. Matthew 24:14 Or gentiles

Future Persecutions(A)

12 “But before all these things, people[a] will arrest you and persecute you. They will hand you over to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name’s sake, 13 in order to give you an opportunity to testify. 14 So purpose in your hearts not to prepare your defense ahead of time, 15 because I will give you the ability to speak, along with wisdom, that none of your opponents will be able to resist or refute. 16 You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and they will put some of you to death. 17 You will be hated continuously by everyone on account of my name. 18 And yet not a hair on your head will be lost. 19 But the person who endures to the end will be saved.”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 21:12 Lit. they