Mat 10:17 | JFB | STEP | 17. But beware of men; for they will deliver you up to the councils-- the local courts, used here for civil magistrates in general. and they will scourge you in their synagogues-- By this is meant persecution at the hands of the ecclesiastics.

‏ Matthew 10:17

17. But beware of men; for they will deliver you up to the councils--the local courts, used here for civil magistrates in general.

and they will scourge you in their synagogues--By this is meant persecution at the hands of the ecclesiastics.