TSK · Luke 21:12

¶ ‹Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.›

¶ ‹Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and› [some] ‹of them ye shall kill and crucify; and› [some] ‹of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute› [them] ‹from city to city:›

‹But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.›

‹Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.›

And they laid hands on them, and put [them] in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.

And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten [them], they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,

And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, ‹Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?›

And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat [them].

On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from [his] bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.

¶ Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem.

Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man myself. To morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.

Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

¶ Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: