Luke 21:12 Cross References - MNT

¹² "But before all these things happen, they will apprehend you and persecute you and deliver you to the synagogues and to prisons, and bring you before kings and governors for the sake of my name.

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. ²⁴ "A pupil is not above his teacher, nor a slave above his masters. ²⁵ "It is enough for the pupil to fare like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more, the members of his household.

⁶ "while the rest seized his slaves and maltreated and murdered them.

³⁴ "For this cause, behold! I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and pursue from city to city; ³⁵ "that upon your heads may come every drop of innocent blood spilt upon the earth, from the blood of Abel, the just, to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the Sanctuary and the altar. ³⁶ "In solemn truth I tell you that all these things will come upon this generation.

⁹ Then they will deliver you up to suffer affliction, and will put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake. ¹⁰ And then many will stumble and fall, and will betray one another, and hate one another.

⁹ "You yourselves must be on your guard. They will hand you over to the courts, and you will be flogged on the synagogues; and you will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, to witness to them for me. ¹⁰ But the gospel must first be proclaimed to all the nations. ¹¹ When, however, they are leading you all to trial, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say, but whatever is given you in that hour, that say, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit. ¹² "And brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child, and children will rise up against their parents, and have them put to death. ¹³ You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he that endures to the end shall be saved.

⁴⁹ "For this reason also said the Wisdom of God. 'I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and some they will persecute; ⁵⁰ "so that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required from this generation, ⁵¹ "from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the alter and the sanctuary; yes; I tell you, it shall be required of this generation!

²⁰ "Remember what I told you, 'A slave is not better than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you. If they have obeyed my word, they will obey yours also.

² "They will excommunicate you from their synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will suppose that he is doing God's service. ³ "And they will do these things because they have not known my Father, nor me.

³ They arrested them, and put them in prison till the next day, for it was already evening. ⁴ But many of those who had heard the message believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand. ⁵ There was held in Jerusalem, next morning, a meeting of their rulers, the elders and scribes, ⁶ and Annas, the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and all the members of the high priests family were present. ⁷ Then they made the men stand before them and demanded, "By what power, or in what name, have you fellows done this?"

¹⁷ This aroused bitter indignation among the high priest and his followers who were of the sect of the Sadducees, ¹⁸ and they apprehended the apostles, and threw them into the public prison. ¹⁹ But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors during the night, and let them out.

⁴⁰ They gave in to him; and called the apostles in, and after flogging them, released them, with instructions not to speak about the name of Jesus.

¹² The elders and the scribes rushed upon him, and seized him, and brought him into the Sanhedrin. ¹³ They also set up false witnesses who testified. "This fellow is continually talking against the Holy Place and against the law. ¹⁴ "For we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which were handed down to us by Moses." ¹⁵ Then all who were sitting in the council at once fixed their eyes upon him, and saw his face like the face of an angel.

⁵⁷ With a loud outcry they stopped their ears, and rushed upon Stephen in a body, ⁵⁸ dragged him outside the city, and stoned him, the witnesses throwing off their outer garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. ⁵⁹ So they stoned Stephen while he prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." ⁶⁰ Then he knelt down and cried aloud, "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge."

³ But Saul was laying waste the church. He was wont to enter into every house, and to drag off men and women, and to commit them to prison.

⁴ He fell to the ground, and heard a voice which said to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?"

¹ Now, at about that time, Herod the king put forth his hands to ill-treat certain members of the church; ² and beheaded James, the brother of John, with the sword. ³ And when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. (This was during the days of unleavened bread.) ⁴ He had him arrested and thrown in prison, and put under guard of sixteen soldiers. He intended, after the Passover, to bring him forth to the people.

²² The crowd, too, rose up together against them, and the praetors, after having them stripped, and after ordering them to be flogged, ²³ had many lashes inflicted upon them, and put them in prison, with a charge to the jailer to keep them safe. ²⁴ On receiving so strict an order he cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. ²⁵ But at midnight, while Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them, ²⁶ suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the very foundations of the prison-house were shaken; and instantly all the doors were opened, and every one's chains fell off.

³⁰ The whole city was thrown into uproar. The mob surged together, seized Paul, and began to drag him outside the temple. Whereupon the doors were at once shut. ³¹ While they were attempting to kill him, news came to the tribune commander of the garrison that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

³⁰ The next day, as he wished to learn the real reason why the Jews accused Paul, he unbound him, and commanded the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin to come together, and brought Paul down, and placed him before them.

¹ Five days later, Ananias the high priest came down to Caesarea with some of the elders, and with an orator, named Tertullus. They laid information before the governor against Paul. ² So Paul was sent for, and then Tertullus began to accuse him, saying. "As it is owing to your excellency that we enjoy profound peace, and that the state of this nation, ³ "owing to your wise care, has been improved in every respect and in every place, we accept it with profound thankfulness. ⁴ "But not to weary you too much, I beg of your Excellency to listen to a few words from us. ⁵ "For we have found this fellow a pest, an inciter of insurrection among all the Jews of the empire, and a ringleader in the heresy of the Nazarenes. ⁶ "He even tried to profane the Temple, but we arrested him. ⁷ "Then the chief captain, Lysias came and violently took him from us. ⁸ From him you will be able, by examining Paul yourself, to learn the truth of all these charges we are bringing against him." ⁹ The Jews also joined in the charge, maintaining that these were the facts.

¹ Three days after Festus entered his province, he went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem. ² The high priest and the Jewish leaders laid charges against Paul before him.

¹¹ "If I am a criminal and have done anything for which I ought to die, I do not object to die. But if none of their charges is true, no man can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar." ¹² Then Festus, after conferring with the council, answered. "You have appealed to Caesar; to Caesar you shall go."

²² "I should like to hear the man, myself," said Agrippa to Festus. Festus answered, "You shall hear him tomorrow." ²³ So the next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp, and took their places in the hall of audience, accompanied by the tribunes and men of high rank in the city. At the command of Festus Paul was brought in. ²⁴ "King Agrippa," said Festus, "and all men who are present with us, you see here the man about whom the entire body of the Jews at Jerusalem, and here also, sent to me, crying out that he ought not to live any longer. ²⁵ "I could not find that he had done anything for which he ought to die; but as he himself has appealed to the Emperor, I have determined to send him.

² "I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you this day, in regard to all the accusations brought against me by the Jews; ³ "especially since you are an export in all Jewish customs and questions. I pray you, expert in all Jewish customs and questions. I pray you, hear me with patience. ⁴ "The kind of life I have lived from my youth upward among my own nation and at Jerusalem, all that early life of mine, is well known to all the Jews. ⁵ "They know me of old, if they are willing to testify, how that according to the strict sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee. ⁶ "Today I am standing trial because of the hope of the promise made by God to our ancestors, ⁷ "a promise which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God night and day, hope to attain. It is concerning this hope, King Agrippa, that I am accused by the Jews. ⁸ "Why is it deemed incredible by you all, if God raises the dead? ⁹ "I indeed once thought with myself that I ought to do many things against the name of Jesus, the Nazarene. ¹⁰ "And this also I did in Jerusalem. Armed with authority from the chief priests, I shut up many of the saints in prison, and when they were condemned to death I gave my vote against them. ¹¹ "In all the synagogues also I punished them oftentimes, and tried to make them blaspheme; and in my mad fury I was pursuing them even to foreign cities.

¹⁵ The men who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out—they are displeasing to God, and are the enemies of all mankind. ¹⁶ They forbid me to speak to the Gentiles with a view to their salvation. They continue always to fill up the measure of their sins; but the wrath of God is come upon them to the full!

¹³ Submit yourselves, for the Lord's sake, to every human authority; whether it be to the Emperor as supreme ruler,

¹² Do not think it strange, beloved, that a fiery ordeal has come to test you, as though some surprising thing had befallen you. ¹³ But be glad in the degree in which you share in the sufferings of Christ; so that when his glory shall be revealed, you too may be glad with triumphant gladness. ¹⁴ If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the spirit of glory and of God is resting upon you.

¹⁰ Fear not what you are about to suffer! Behold, the devil is indeed going to put some of you in prison, that you may be tested, and you will have persecution for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.