17 Be on your guard against men, for they will hand you over to local courts+ and they will scourge you+ in their synagogues.+

34 For this reason, I am sending to you prophets+ and wise men and public instructors.+ Some of them you will kill+ and execute on stakes, and some of them you will scourge+ in your synagogues and persecute+ from city to city,

2 Men will expel you from the synagogue.+ In fact, the hour is coming when everyone who kills you+ will think he has offered a sacred service to God.

40 At this they took his advice, and they summoned the apostles, flogged them,+ and ordered them to stop speaking on the basis of Jesus’ name, and let them go.