I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes Marking the continuity of the Christian with the Jewish Church.

ye shall kill and crucify Kill, directly as Stephen (Acts 7:59), indirectly as James (Acts 12:2), and crucify, by means of the Roman power, as Symeon, second Bishop of Jerusalem (Eus. H. E.iii. 32).

scourge in your synagogues See note ch. Matthew 4:23.

from city to city As Paul pursued Christians to Damascus; as he was himself driven from Antioch in Pisidia, from Iconium, from Philippi, and from Thessalonica.

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