When they arrest y’all and hand y’all over, y’all don’t worry beforehand about what to say, but y’all say whatever is given to y’all at that time. For it is not y’all who speak, but the Holy Spirit.
It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but y’all, in these things which now have been announced to y’all through those who preached the gospel to y’all by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven—things which angels long to look into.
When they had prayed, the place where they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.
Lord YHWH has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom y’all handed over and disowned before Pilate, after he had decided to set him free.
“But y’all must be on guard. For they will deliver y’all up to councils, and y’all will be beaten in synagogues. Y’all will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, as a witness to them.
But before all these things, they will lay their hands on y’all and will persecute y’all, delivering y’all up to synagogues and prisons, bringing y’all before kings and governors for my name’s sake.