When you are brought before synagogues, rulers, and authorities, do not worry about how to defend yourselves or what to say.
We find here, I. A vast auditory that was got together to hear Christ preach. The scribes and Pharisees sought to accuse him, and do him mischief; but the people, who were not under the bias of their prejudices and jealousies, still admired him, attended on him, and did him honour.
Commenting on Luke 12:1-12
And when they bring you unto the synagogues,.... Of the Jews, to be examined and scourged by the rulers of them: and unto magistrates and powers; Heathen ones; the Persic version reads, "princes and kings"; and the Ethiopic version, "princes, kings, and judges"; see Mat 10:18 Take ye no thought how, or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say; be not anxiously...
Verses 11,12. , Also Verse 11. (k) "take ye no thought"