But think not that all your innocence and all your wisdom will screen you from persecution. They will scourge you in their synagogues — In these the Jews held their courts of judicature, about both civil and ecclesiastical affairs. Matthew 24:9.
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Matthew 10:17
17 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;