But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues you2f shall be beaten: and you2f shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.
At that time Yeshua [God is Salvation] said to the crowds of the Jews: “Therefore, behold I am sending you prophets, wise men and Torah-teachers (Scribes). Some of them you will kill, some of them you will afflict in your synagogues and you will pursue them from city to city”.
And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled [them] to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted [them] even unto strange cities.
And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and [unto] magistrates, and powers, take you2f no thought how or what thing you2f shall answer, or what you2f shall say:
“But I say to you, he who angers his companion is guilty of judgment; he who calls his brother inferior shall be guilty of judgment before the congregation; he who calls him a fool is guilty of the fire of Gei-Hinnom [hell, valley of evil counsel]”.
Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against [their] parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.
The chief priests and the P’rushim (Pharisees) [separatists] wished to find false witnesses against Yeshua [God is Salvation] in order to put him to death.
And then immediately the brethren sent away Sha’ul [desired] to go as it were to the sea: but Silas [woody] and Timothy [honoring God] abode there still.
And desired of him letters to Dammesek (Damascus) [silent is the sackcloth weaver] to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].