And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:
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Gill's Exposition
And when they bring you unto the synagogues,.... Of the Jews, to be examined and scourged by the rulers of them:
and unto magistrates and powers; Heathen ones; the Persic version reads, "princes and…
Adam Clarke
Unto magistrates and powers - See Mat 10:17-20.
Take ye no thought - See Mat 6:25; Mat 10:19.
We find here, I. A vast auditory that was got together to hear Christ preach. The scribes and Pharisees sought to accuse him, and do him mischief; but the people, who were not under the bias of their…
Cambridge Bible
unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers The -synagogues" were the small Jewish tribunals of synagogue officials in every town, which had the power of inflicting scourging for minor…
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