Jesus Warns about Judgment in Synagogues

Luke 12:11; 21:12

Late 1st or Early 2nd Century

Chapter 12

11When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, do not worry about how you are to defend yourselves or what you are to say.

Chapter 21

12But before all this occurs, they will arrest you and persecute you; they will hand you over to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors because of my name.

 

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Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.

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