Matthew 10:18

18. Brought before governors Procurators and proconsuls. Such were Pilate, Felix, and Festus. And kings Such were Herod, Agrippa, and the Roman emperor. For a testimony against them A memento in the great day of judgment, that the Gospel had been preached unto them, and had been rejected by them. And the Gentiles For our Lord is now contemplating a field of trial far beyond the boundaries of Palestine, to which he had limited their present trial mission. From the humble encounters which they were to undergo before the magistrates and mobs in the towns of Palestine; our Lord mounts to their arraignments before the great ones of the earth and their expanded missions into the various Gentile nations. Here is a quiet yet signal prophecy of the spread of the Gospel in distant lands, and an intimation of the persecutions which marked the progress of Christianity for several centuries.