Verse 17
17. Beware of men These wolves are men. And men, as such, are depraved in heart. Of all such, in their depraved, unregenerated character, have a care, for evil is to be expected from them. The evils to be expected our Lord next describes. Councils The smaller courts in Palestine, yet including the grand Sanhedrim in Jerusalem.
Scourge you in their synagogues Scourging is mentioned as a punishment in the Mosaic law. (Deuteronomy 25:13.) The criminal, being laid upon the ground, was scourged with a whip of three lashes, so that thirteen blows should inflict thirty-nine stripes. This was the forty save one which St. Paul received, 2 Corinthians 11:24. In their synagogues The synagogue was the ordinary place of the Jewish courts of justice. Matthew 23:24; Acts 22:19.
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