19 (A)But when they hand you over, (B)do not worry about how or what you are to say; for what you are to say will be given you in that hour. 20 For (C)it is not you who are speaking, but it is the Spirit of your Father who is speaking [a]in you.

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  1. Matthew 10:20 Or by you

19 Whenever[a] they hand you over for trial,[b] do not worry about how to speak or what to say,[c] for what you should say will be given to you at that time.[d] 20 For it is not you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 10:19 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
  2. Matthew 10:19 tn Or “hand you over into custody,” in particular “as a t.t. of police and courts ‘hand over into [the] custody [of]’” (BDAG 762 s.v. παραδίδωμι 1.b). In context some sort of trial is implied (cf. Luke 12:11).
  3. Matthew 10:19 tn Grk “how or what you might speak.”
  4. Matthew 10:19 tn Grk “in that hour.”

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.

20 For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.

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