But take ye heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to the Councils, and to the Synagogues: ye shall be beaten, and brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a [a]testimonial unto them.

10 And the Gospel must first be published among all nations.

11 (A)But when they lead you, and deliver you up, [b]be not careful before hand, [c]neither study what ye shall say: but what is given you at the same time, that speak: for it is not you that speak, but the holy Ghost.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 13:9 The hearing of you preaching shall be a most evident witness against them, so that they shall not be able to pretend ignorance.
  2. Mark 13:11 We are not forbidden to think beforehand, but pensive carefulness whereby men discourage themselves, which proceedeth from distrust, and want of confidence and sure hope of God’s assistance: that carefulness we are willed to beware of, see also Matt. 6:27.
  3. Mark 13:11 By any kind of artificial and cunning kind of tale what to speak.

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