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What does Matthew 10:17 mean?
"But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you."
— Matthew 10:17 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Whoever doesn’t receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet.
Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.
“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.
Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.
But when they deliver you up, don’t be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.
For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
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