Luke 12:11-12

12:11 But when they bring you before the synagogues, ¹  the ²  rulers, and the authorities, do not worry about how you should make your defense ³  or what you should say, 12:12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that moment ⁴  what you must say.” ⁵ 

Matthew 10:19-20

10:19 Whenever ⁶  they hand you over for trial, do not worry about how to speak or what to say, ⁷  for what you should say will be given to you at that time. ⁸  10:20 For it is not you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

Mark 13:11

13:11 When they arrest you and hand you over for trial, do not worry about what to speak. But say whatever is given you at that time, ⁹  for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

¹ sn The saying looks at persecution both from a Jewish context as the mention of synagogues suggests, and from a Gentile one as the reference to the rulers and the authorities suggests.

² tn Grk “and the,” but καί (kai) has not been translated since English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.

³ tn Grk “about how or what you should say in your defense,” but this is redundant with the following clause, “or what you should say.”

⁴ tn Grk “in that very hour” (an idiom).

⁵ tn Grk “what it is necessary to say.”

⁶ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

⁷ tn Grk “how or what you might speak.”

⁸ tn Grk “in that hour.”

⁹ tn Grk “in that hour.”