Luke 21:12 Cross References - Moffatt

¹² But before all that, men will lay hands on you and persecute you, handing you over to synagogues and prisons; you will be dragged before kings and governors for the sake of my name.

¹⁶ I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; so be wise like serpents and guileless like doves. ¹⁷ Beware of men, they will hand you over to sanhedrins and scourge you in their synagogues, ¹⁸ and you will be haled before governors and kings for my sake — it will be a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. ¹⁹ Now, when they bring you up for trial, do not trouble yourselves about how to speak or what to say; what you are to say will come to you at the moment, ²⁰ for you are not the speakers, it is the Spirit of your Father that is speaking through you. ²¹ Brother will betray brother to death, the father will betray his child, children will rise against their parents and put them to death, ²² and you will be hated by all men on account of my name; but he will be saved who holds out to the very end. ²³ When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next; truly I tell you, you will not have covered the towns of Israel before the Son of man arrives. ²⁴ A scholar is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord; ²⁵ enough for the scholar to fare like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If men have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they miscall his servants!

⁶ while the rest seized his servants and ill-treated them and killed them.

³⁴ This is why I will send you prophets, wise men, and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, some of whom you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town; ³⁵ it is that on you may fall the punishment for all the just blood shed on earth from the blood of Abel the just down to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. ³⁶ I tell you truly, it will all come upon this generation.

⁹ Then men will hand you over to suffer affliction, and they will kill you; you will be hated by all the Gentiles on account of my name. ¹⁰ And many will be repelled then, they will betray one another and hate one another.

⁹ Look to yourselves. Men will hand you over to Sanhedrins and you will be flogged in synagogues and brought before governors and kings for my sake, to testify to them. ¹⁰ (Ere the end, the gospel must be preached to all nations.) ¹¹ Now when they carry you off to trial, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say; say whatever comes to your lips at the moment, for he who speaks is not you but the holy Spirit. ¹² Brother will betray brother to death, the father will betray his child, children will rise against their parents and kill them, ¹³ and you will be hated by all men on account of my name; but he will be saved who holds out to the very end.

⁴⁹ This is why the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, some they will kill and some they will persecute'; ⁵⁰ it was that the blood of all the prophets shed from the foundation of the world might be charged upon this generation, ⁵¹ from the blood of Abel down to the blood of Zechariah who was slain between the altar and the House of God — yes, I tell you, it will all be charged upon this generation.

²⁰ Remember what I told you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they hold to my word, they will hold to yours.

² They will excommunicate you; indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will imagine he is performing a service to God. ³ This they will do to you, because they have not known the Father nor me.

³ They laid hands on them and, as it was now evening, put them in custody till next morning. ⁴ (A number of those who heard them speak believed, bringing up their numbers to [about] five thousand.) ⁵ Next morning a meeting was held in Jerusalem of their rulers, elders and scribes, ⁶ which was attended by the high priest Annas, by Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and all the members of the high priest's family. ⁷ They made the men stand before them and inquired, "By what authority, in whose name, have you done this?"

¹⁷ This filled the high priest Annas and his allies, the Sadducean party, with bitter jealousy; ¹⁸ they laid hands on the apostles and put them into the public prison, ¹⁹ but an angel of the Lord opened the prison-doors during the night and brought them out, saying,

⁴⁰ They gave in to him, and after summoning the apostles and giving them a flogging, they released them with instructions that they were not to speak about the name of Jesus.

¹² In this way they excited the people, the elders, and the scribes, who rushed on him, dragged him away, and took him before the Sanhedrin. ¹³ They also brought forward false witnesses to say, "This fellow is never done talking against this holy Place and the Law! ¹⁴ Why, we have heard him say that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this Place and change the customs handed down to us by Moses!" ¹⁵ Then all who were seated in the Sanhedrin fixed their eyes on him, and saw that his face shone like the face of an angel.

⁵⁷ With a loud shriek they shut their ears and rushed at him like one man. ⁵⁸ Putting him outside the city, they proceeded to stone him (the witnesses laid their clothes at the feet of a youth called Saul). ⁵⁹ So they stoned Stephen, who called on the Lord, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!" ⁶⁰ Then he knelt down and cried aloud, "Lord, let not this sin stand against them!" With these words he slept the sleep of death.

³ but Saul made havoc of the church by entering one house after another, dragging off men and women, and consigning them to prison.

⁴ he dropped to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"

¹ It was about that time that king Herod laid hands of violence on some members of the church. ² James the brother of John he slew with the sword, ³ and when he saw this pleased the Jews, he went on to seize Peter. (This was during the days of unleavened bread.) ⁴ After arresting him he put him in prison, handing him over to a guard of sixteen soldiers, with the intention of producing him to the People after the passover.

²² The crowd also joined in the attack upon them, while the praetors, after having them stripped and after ordering them to be flogged with rods, ²³ had many lashes inflicted on them and put them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safe. ²⁴ On receiving so strict a charge, he put them into the inner prison and secured their feet in the stocks. ²⁵ But about midnight, as Paul and Silas were praying and singing to God, while the prisoners listened, ²⁶ all of a sudden there was a great earthquake which shook the very foundations of the prison; the doors all flew open in an instant and the fetters of all the prisoners were unfastened.

³⁰ The whole city was thrown into turmoil. The people rushed together, seized Paul and dragged him outside the temple; whereupon the doors were immediately shut. ³¹ They were attempting to kill him, when word reached the commander of the garrison that the whole of Jerusalem was in confusion.

³⁰ Next day, as he was anxious to find out the real reason why the Jews accused him, he unbound him, ordered the high priests and all the Sanhedrin to meet, and brought Paul down, placing him in front of them.

¹ Five days later down came the high priest Ananias with some elders and a barrister called Tertullus. They laid information before the governor against Paul. ² So Paul was summoned, and then Tertullus proceeded to accuse him. "Your excellency," he said to Felix, "as it is owing to you that we enjoy unbroken peace, and as it is owing to your wise care that the state of this nation has been improved in every way and everywhere, ³ we acknowledge all this with profound gratitude. ⁴ I have no wish to weary you, but I beg of you to grant us in your courtesy a brief hearing. ⁵ The fact is, we have found this man is a perfect pest; he stirs up sedition among the Jews all over the world and he is a ringleader of the Nazarene sect. ⁶ He actually tried to desecrate the temple, but we got hold of him. ⁷ -- ⁸ Examine him for yourself and you will be able to find out about all these charges of ours against him." ⁹ The Jews joined in the attack, declaring that such were the facts of the case.

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

¹¹ If I am a criminal, if I have done anything that deserves death, I do not object to die; but if there is nothing in any of their charges against me, then no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!" ¹² Then, after conferring with the council, Festus answered, "You have appealed to Caesar? Very well, you must go to Caesar! "

²² "I should like to hear the man myself," said Agrippa to Festus. "You shall hear him to-morrow," said Festus. ²³ So next day Agrippa and Bernice proceeded with great pomp to the hall of audience, accompanied by the military commanders and the prominent civilians of the town. Festus then ordered Paul to be brought in. ²⁴ "King Agrippa and all here present," said Festus, "you see before you a man of whom the entire body of the Jews at Jerusalem and also here have complained to me. They loudly insist he ought not to live any longer. ²⁵ I could not find he had done anything that deserved death, so I decided to send him, on his own appeal, to the emperor.

² "I consider myself fortunate, king Agrippa, in being able to defend myself to-day before you against all that the Jews charge me with; ³ for you are well acquainted with all Jewish customs and questions. Pray listen to me then with patience. ⁴ How I lived from my youth up among my own nation and at Jerusalem, all that early career of mine, is known to all the Jews. ⁵ They know me of old. They know, if they chose to admit it, that as a Pharisee I lived by the principles of the strictest party in our religion. ⁶ To-day I am standing my trial for hoping in the promise made by God to our fathers, ⁷ a promise which our twelve tribes hope to gain by serving God earnestly both night and day. And I am actually impeached by Jews for this hope, O king! ⁸ [Move to the beginning of vs 23] Why should you consider it incredible that God raises the dead, ⁹ I once believed it my duty indeed actively to oppose the name of Jesus the Nazarene. ¹⁰ I did so in Jerusalem. I shut up many of the saints in prison, armed with authority from the high priests; when they were put to death, I voted against them; ¹¹ there was not a synagogue where I did not often punish them and force them to blaspheme; and in my frantic fury I persecuted them even to foreign towns.

¹⁵ who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, who harassed ourselves, who offend God and oppose all men ¹⁶ by hindering us from speaking words of salvation to the Gentiles. So they would fill up the measure of their sins to the last drop! But the Wrath is on them to the bitter end!

¹³ Submit for the Lord's sake to any human authority; submit to the emperor as supreme,

¹² Beloved, do not be surprised at the ordeal that has come to test you, as though some foreign experience befell you. ¹³ You are sharing what Christ suffered; so rejoice in it, that you may also rejoice and exult when his glory is revealed. ¹⁴ If you are denounced for the sake of Christ, you are blessed; for then the Spirit of glory and power, the Spirit of God himself, is resting on you.

¹⁰ Have no fear of what you are to suffer. The devil indeed is going to put some of you in prison, that you may be tested; you will have a distressful ten days. Be faithful, though you have to die for it, and I will give you the crown of Life.