And when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious about how you should defend yourself or what you should 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"