The Promise of Persecution

¹⁶ “^(A)Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so ^[a]be ^(B)shrewd as serpents and ^(C)innocent as doves.

⁵ it does not act unbecomingly, ^(A)does not seek its own, is not provoked, ^(B)does not take into account a wrong suffered;