13. (a) “Mockings and scourgings” were suffered by whom? (b) Who experienced “bonds and prisons”?

¹³ If we have faith, we will be able to endure persecution. (Read Hebrews 11:36-38.)

Those who “wandered about in deserts and mountains and caves and dens of the earth” as objects of persecution must include not only Elijah and Elisha but also the 100 prophets that Obadiah hid by 50’s in a cave, supplying them with bread and water when idolatrous Queen Jezebel started to “cut off Jehovah’s prophets.” (1 Kings 18:4, 13; 2 Kings 2:13; 6:13, 30, 31) What integrity keepers! No wonder Paul said: “The world [unrighteous human society] was not worthy of them”!