Coming Persecutions. 16^j “Behold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves. 17^* But beware of people,^k for they will hand you over to courts and scourge you in their synagogues,^l 18and you will be led before governors and kings for my sake as a witness before them and the pagans. 19When they hand you over, do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say. You will be given at that moment what you are to say.^m 20For it will not be you who speak but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. 21^{* n} Brother will hand over brother to death, and the father his child; children will rise up against parents and have them put to death. 22You will be hated by all because of my name, but whoever endures to the end^* will be saved. 23When they persecute you in one town, flee to another. Amen, I say to you, you will not finish the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.^* 24^o No disciple is above his teacher, no slave above his master. 25It is enough for the disciple that he become like his teacher, for the slave that he become like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul,^* how much more those of his household!