But this will be your opportunity to tell them about me.
From that time on, Judas began looking for an opportunity to betray Jesus.
And I want you to know, my dear brothers and sisters, that everything that has happened to me here has helped to spread the Good News.
Don’t be intimidated in any way by your enemies. This will be a sign to them that they are going to be destroyed, but that you are going to be saved, even by God himself.
And God will use this persecution to show his justice and to make you worthy of his Kingdom, for which you are suffering.