Beware of men, for they will deliver you over to courts and flog you in their synagogues. The persecution that awaits: arrest, trial, flogging in synagogues. The same institutional religious establishment that is already accusing Jesus (9:3, 34) will pursue the disciples with the same hostility. Acts 5:40 records the apostles being flogged by the Sanhedrin; Acts 22:19 records Paul flogging believers in synagogues before his conversion. The prediction is not hypothetical but is fulfilled in the book of Acts and in the history of the early church. The institutions of religion and politics will both oppose the kingdom's messengers.

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