This thing is the worst among all things, that be done under the sun, that the same thing befall to all men; wherefore and the hearts of the sons of men be filled with malice and with despising in their life; and after these things, they shall be led down into hells [or to hell].
But see ye yourselves, for they shall take you in councils, and ye shall be beaten in synagogues; and ye shall stand before kings and dooms-men for me, in witnessing to them.
But before all these things they shall set their hands on you, and shall pursue you, betaking into synagogues and keepings, [either prisons], and drawing you to kings and to justices, for my name;
But when they gainsaid and blasphemed, he shook away [or shook off] his clothes, and said to them, Your blood be on your head; I shall be clean from henceforth, and I shall go to heathen men.
as the prince of priests yieldeth witnessing to me, and all the greatest of birth [or the more in birth]. Of whom also I took epistles to brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring from thence men bound into Jerusalem, that they should be pained.