Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Mark 13:9 Take heed. Not to escape persecution, but to be ready for it. In Matthew's report persecution is foretold, but the injunctions of Mark 13:9-11 are omitted, or rather given in Matthew 10:18-20, on which see notes. They shall deliver you up to councils. Jewish courts. Besides the great national council, the Sanhedrin, each principal town had a smaller council, or local Sanhedrin. In the synagogues ye shall be beaten. In every Jewish synagogue there were three magistrates authorized to inflict certain punishments, scourging being one. The number of stripes could not exceed forty (Deuteronomy 25:3); hence they always stopped at thirty-nine. Rulers and kings. Roman officials, such as Felix (Acts 24:24), Festus (Acts 25:4-6), Gallio (Acts 18:2), King Agrippa (Acts 26:1), and Nero (Acts 25:12).
Other People's Commentary (NT) entries containing Mark 13:9:
Matthew 24:1
Mark 13:9
Luke 21:7-33
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