¹⁷ But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;

¹⁹ But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.

¹² But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.

¹⁴ Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer: