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But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils and scourge you in their synagogues.

You will be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.

But when they deliver you up, do not worry about how or what you should speak. For it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak;

for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

And you will be hated by all for My name's sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.

When they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For assuredly, I say to you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

It is enough for a disciple that he be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, [fn] how much more will they call those of his household!

Therefore do not fear them. For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known.

Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father's will.

For I have come to "set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law';

He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.

and said to Him, "Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?"

For this is he of whom it is written: 'Behold, I send My messenger before Your face,Who will prepare Your way before You.' Malachi 3:1 ">[fn]

For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.

and saying: "We played the flute for you, And you did not dance; We mourned to you, And you did not lament.'

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, "He has a demon.'

"Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

But I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you.

And you, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be [fn] brought down to Hades; for if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

But I say to you that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you."