“Tharfor, see! I send ye Prophets, and Wyss Men, and Scribes: some oʼ them wull ye slay and crucify, and some clour iʼ yere kirks, and persecute them frae toon tae toon:
“But say I tʼye, Whasae is angry wiʼ his brither‐man, sal be in danger oʼ the Coort: and wha sal say to his brither‐man, ‘Gonyel!’ sal be in danger oʼ the Cooncil: but wha sal say ‘Fule!’ sal be in danger oʼ the fire oʼ hell!
“But tak tent to yersels; for they wull gie ye up to hie‐cooncils and kirks; ye maun be cloured; and fornent governors and kings maun ye staun for the sake oʼ me, for a testimonie to them.
“But at sic times as they bring ye up afore the kirks, and the rulers, and the authorities, ye are‐na to be in a swither, as to what ye are to reply, nor what ye are to say.
“And, takin vengeance on them aften, in aʼ the kirks, I strave to mak them blaspheme; and bein uncolie enraged again them, I pursued them the lenth oʼ foreign cities.
And craved frae him letters to Damascus, to the kirks, sae as, gin they faund ony oʼ “The Way,” aither men or weemen, he soud fesh them in thrall to Jerusalem.