Behold, I am sending you like sheep among wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves. But beware of people, for they will hand you over to courts and scourge you in their synagogues. You will be led before governors and kings for my sake as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. When 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. For it will not be you who speak but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. You will be hated by all because of my name, but whoever endures to the end will be saved.” (Matthew 10:16–20, 22)
