Matthew 10:20

18 ^aYou will be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.

19 ^aBut when they deliver you up, do not worry about how or what you should speak. For ^bit will be given to you in that hour what you should speak;

20 ^afor it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

21 ^a“Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

22 And ^ayou will be hated by all for My name’s sake. ^bBut he who endures to the end will be saved.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Matthew 10:20

For it is - the Spirit of your Father, etc. - This was an extraordinary promise, and was literally fulfilled to those first preachers of the Gospel; and to them it was essentially necessary, because the New Testament dispensation was to be fully opened by their extraordinary inspiration. In a certain measure, it may be truly said, that the Holy Spirit animates the true disciples of Christ, and enables them to speak. The Head speaks in his members, by his Spirit; and it is the province of the Spirit of God to speak for God. Neither surprise, defect of talents, nor even ignorance itself, could hurt the cause of God, in the primitive times, when the hearts and minds of those Divine men were influenced by the Holy Spirit.

Your Father - This is added to excite and increase their confidence in God.

**Other Adam Clarke entries containing Matthew 10:20:**

Luke 12:11
Acts 4:8

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