Matthew 10:16-18

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Persecutions Predicted

¹⁶ “Look, I’m sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as serpents and as harmless as doves.^{(A) 17} Because people will hand you over to sanhedrins^[a] and flog you in their synagogues,^(B) beware of them. ¹⁸ You will even be brought before governors and kings because of Me, to bear witness to them and to the nations.^(C)