MNT(i)
16 "Behold, it is I who am sending you forth like sheep among wolves. Be then as serpents and as guileless as doves.
17 "But beware of men! For they will give you up to the Sanhedrin, and flog you in their synagogues.
18 "And you will be taken before governors and kings for my sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.
19 "But whenever they apprehend you, do not be anxious about how you shall speak or what you shall say; for it will be given you in that very hour what to say.
20 "For it will not be you who is speaking, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
21 "And brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against their parents and put them to death.
22 "You will be hated by all men because of my name; and he who endures to the end shall be saved.
23 "But when they persecute you in one city, flee to the next. In solemn truth I tell you that you shall not have completed the cities of Israel, before the Son of man comes.