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Greek Text: Ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἀποστέλλω ὑμᾶς ὡς πρόβατα ἐν μέσῳ λύκων· γίνεσθε οὖν φρόνιμοι ὡς οἱ ὄφεις καὶ ἀκέραιοι ὡς αἱ περιστεραί.

17 προσέχετε δὲ ἀπὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων· παραδώσουσιν γὰρ ὑμᾶς εἰς συνέδρια, καὶ ἐν ταῖς συναγωγαῖς αὐτῶν μαστιγώσουσιν ὑμᾶς· 18 καὶ ἐπὶ ἡγεμόνας δὲ καὶ βασιλεῖς ἀχθήσεσθε ἕνεκεν ἐμοῦ, εἰς μαρτύριον αὐτοῖς καὶ τοῖς ἔθνεσιν.

19 ὅταν δὲ παραδῶσιν ὑμᾶς, μὴ μεριμνήσητε πῶς ἢ τί λαλήσητε· δοθήσεται γὰρ ὑμῖν ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ὥρᾳ τί λαλήσητε· 20 οὐ γὰρ ὑμεῖς ἐστὲ οἱ λαλοῦντες, ἀλλὰ τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ πατρὸς ὑμῶν τὸ λαλοῦν ἐν ὑμῖν.

21 παραδώσει δὲ ἀδελφὸς ἀδελφὸν εἰς θάνατον καὶ πατὴρ τέκνον, καὶ ἐπαναστήσονται τέκνα ἐπὶ γονεῖς καὶ θανατώσουσιν αὐτούς.

22 καὶ ἔσεσθε μισούμενοι ὑπὸ πάντων διὰ τὸ ὄνομά μου· ὁ δὲ ὑπομείνας εἰς τέλος, οὗτος σωθήσεται.

23 ὅταν δὲ διώκωσιν ὑμᾶς ἐν τῇ πόλει ταύτῃ, φεύγετε εἰς τὴν ἑτέραν· ἀμὴν γὰρ λέγω ὑμῖν, οὐ μὴ τελέσητε τὰς πόλεις τοῦ Ἰσραήλ ἕως ἂν ἔλθῃ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου.

English Text: : [16] Behold, I am sending all of you as sheep in the midst of wolves.

Therefore, be wise people as serpents and innocent as doves.

[17] But watch out for men because they will deliver you up to Sanhedrin, and flog you before synagogues.

[18] And you will be brought before governors and kings on account of me as a testimony to them and the Gentiles.

[19] And when you are delivered up do not be anxious about how or what to speak.

Because it will be given in that hour what to speak.

[20] Because it is not you the ones speaking, but the Spirit of your heavenly Father speaking in you.

[21] But brother will deliver brother to death and a father a child, and children rise against parents and put them to death.

[22] And you will be hated by everyone on account of my name.

But the one who endures to the end will be delivered.

[23] But when they persecute you in this city, escape to another.

For truly I say to you, you will not have passed through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

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Exegetical Main Point: The disciples are to expect persecution, and are comforted by the reality that the Triune God is with them.

Pastoral Main Point: When we suffer for the sake of the gospel, we can be sure that we are safe in the hands of our Saviour and will provide the necessary wisdom and way of escape.

Cross References:

10:16:

Discourse; Sermon 10:5–11:1

Saying, Discipleship 10:5–16

Longacre Genre

Primary: Behavioral: Hortatory

Jesus sends out the apostles Event

Adoption, Blasphemy, Commitment, Conflict, Death and Dying, Discipleship, Education, Evangelism, Family, Fear, God: Father, God: Providence, Holy Spirit, Jesus: Humanity, Mission, Persecution, Perseverance, Purity, Salvation, Service, Wisdom

o ; []

Go your way; behold, I am sending you out as lambs in the midst of wolves.

As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.

p

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made.

He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”

q (Gk.); ; []

For your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil.

that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

Brothers, do not be children in your thinking.

Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

10:17

“But be on your guard.

For they will deliver you over to councils, and you will be beaten in synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them.

And when they bring you to trial and deliver you over, do not be anxious beforehand what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

And when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious about how you should defend yourself or what you should say,

for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”

s See ch.

23:34

Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town,

10:18

be \ˈbē\ verb past 1st & 3d singular was \ˈwəz, ˈwäz\; 2d singular were \ˈwər\; plural were; past subjunctive were; past part been \ˈbin, ˈben, chiefly British ˈbēn\; presentparticiple be•ing \ˈbē(-i)ŋ\; present 1st singular am \əm, ˈam\; 2d singular are \ˈär, ər\; 3d singular is \ˈiz, əz\; plural are; present subjunctive be [Middle English, from Old English bēon; akin to Old High German bim am, Latin fui I have been, futurus about to be, fieri to become, be done, Greek phynai to be born, be by nature, phyein to produce] verb intransitive before 12th century 1 a: to equal in meaning: have the same connotation as: SYMBOLIZE 〈God is love〉 〈January is the first month〉 〈let xbe 10〉 b: to have identity with 〈the first person I met was my brother〉 c: to constitute the same class as d: to have a specified qualification or characterization 〈the leaves are green〉 e: to belong to the class of 〈the fish is a trout〉—used regularly in senses 1a through 1e as the copula of simple predication 2 …

MW Collegiate Dict.

(11th Ed.)

72 ἄγω (agō): vb.

[see ἄγε (age), between 35–36]; ≡ Str 71 & 33—1.

LN 15.165 bring, direct movement of an object (); 2. LN 15.210 carry, or bring people or animals (; .r.); 3. LN 15.34 go away, depart (; .r.); 4. LN 36.1 guide, lead (); 5. LN 42.1 function, be operative, actively perform a function (); 6. LN 67.64 occur, take place (), for another interp, see next; 7. LN 67.79 spend time, be with one for a duration of time (), for another interp, see prior

DBL Greek

71.

ἄγω agō; a prim.

vb.; to lead, bring, carry:—arrest(1), bring(11), bringing(3), brought(26), go(5), going(2), lead(1), leads(1), led(12), led away(1), session(1), taking(1), took away(1).

NASB Dictionaries

you will be brought NKJV, NIV, LEB

you will be dragged ESV, NRSV, RSV

ye shall be brought KJV 1900, AV 1873

you will ... be brought NASB95

You will stand trial NLT

Text Comparison

ἀχθήσεσθε achthēsesthe

ἄγω agōlead; bring

αγω agō lead; bring

VFPI2P verb, future, passive, indicative, second person, plural

G71 Greek Strong’s

LN 15.165 Louw-Nida

to be brought to judgment verb

t See ch.

8:4

And Jesus said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a proof to them.”

r [See ver.

17 above]

Beware of men, for they will deliver you over to courts and flog you in their synagogues,

10:19

When they deliver you over, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say, for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour.

20 For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

21 Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death, 22 and you will be hated by all for my name’s sake.

But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

And when they bring you to trial and deliver you over, do not be anxious beforehand what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

12 And brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

13 And you will be hated by all for my name’s sake.

But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name’s sake.

13 This will be your opportunity to bear witness.

14 Settle it therefore in your minds not to meditate beforehand how to answer, 15 for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.

16 You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death.

17 You will be hated by all for my name’s sake.

18 But not a hair of your head will perish.

19 By your endurance you will gain your lives.

At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me.

May it not be charged against them!

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it.

So I was rescued from the lion’s mouth.

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on.

Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

w ; []; See

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers.

And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.

And the LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”

Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.”

10:20

x ; ; ; ; ; ; [ver.

40; ; ]

for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders,

But they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.