Luke 21:14
Therefore, keep in your levavot (hearts) not to prepare to defend yourselves.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:
In Context
13It will turn out for you to be an opportunity for being an eidus (witness) to the edut (testimony).
Cross References
Matthew 10:19But when they deliver you up, do not be of a LEV ROGEZ + 10:19 Dt 28:65 (anxious heart) worried about how or what you are to say; for it will be given to you in that hour what you are to speak.
Luke 12:11And when they bring you in before the shuls and the rulers and the manhigim, do not have a lev rogez about what you should speak in your own hitstaddekut (defense), or about your legal brief.
Matthew Henry on Luke 21:6-20
Judgments Predicted. 5 And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, 6 As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. 7 And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass? 8 And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time… Read the whole commentary →