16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves; be ye therefore prudent as serpents and innocent as doves. 17 But keep yourselves from men, for they will deliver you up in councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues; 18 and ye shall even be brought before princes and kings for my sake, for testimony unto them and to the Gentiles. 19 But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak, for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. 20 For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you. 21 And brother shall deliver up brother unto death, and the father the child, and children shall rise up against their parents and cause them to be put to death. 22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name, but he that endures to the end shall be saved. 23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another, for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel until the Son of man be come.
24 The disciple is not above his master, nor the slave above his lord. 25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the slave as his lord. If they have called the husband of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call those of his household?