12 “But before all these things people will lay their hands upon YOU and persecute+YOU, delivering YOU up to the synagogues and prisons, YOU being haled before kings and governors for the sake of my name.+
2 Men will expel YOU from the synagogue.*+ In fact, the hour is coming when everyone that kills YOU will imagine he has rendered a sacred service* to God.+
40 At this they gave heed to him, and they summoned the apostles, flogged them,+ and ordered them to stop speaking upon the basis of Jesus’ name,+ and let them go.
15 who killed even the Lord Jesus+ and the prophets+ and persecuted us.+ Furthermore, they are not pleasing God, but are against [the interests of] all men,