Luke 21:15

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Modern

For I will give you speech and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.

Traditional

For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.

Literal

For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all those opposing you will neither be able to resist nor contradict.

Latin

…ego enim dabo vobis os et sapientiam, cui non poterunt resistere et contradicere omnes adversarii vestri.

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Greek

English

For I will give you speech and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.

Notes

Luke 21:15

I will give you speech and wisdom: God often assured his prophets that he would give them the words to say (Exodus 4:12, 15; Deuteronomy 18:18; Isaiah 50:4; 51:16; Jeremiah 1:9). The disciples of Jesus were to prepare themselves to speak clearly as witnesses (see Colossians 4:5–6; 2 Timothy 2:21; 1 Peter 3:15). They knew that the Holy Spirit would help them respond as powerfully as Jesus had done (Luke 20:20–44).

Luke 21:12–19

they will seize you and persecute you: Jesus described the persecution his followers would experience (see also Matthew 10:17–22; Mark 13:9). Jewish writings from the time of Jesus also described a period of great hardship before God's final salvation would arrive.

Luke 21:5–38

When Jesus predicted the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, his disciples asked when it would happen and what signs would accompany it (21:6,7). Jesus responded by describing the events surrounding the destruction of the temple and the return of the Son of Man (21:8–36). This sermon is known as the Olivet Discourse because the Mount of Olives was where Jesus taught (see Matthew 24:3; Mark 13:3).

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At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.
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Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers and elders of the people!
Acts 4:31–33
After they had prayed, their meeting place was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.

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