Wherefore] Seeing ye are so cruell, ye shall have matter to exercise your cruelty, that it may be known, though ye now hide it, and ye may exemplarily perish. I send unto you] After my resurrection. prophets, and wise men and scribes] He calls the apostles and pastours of the new Testament, by names taken out of the old, as best known to the Jews, and mentioned, v. 30. that they that honoured the dead prophets, and st so great a price on their own wise men and scribes, might see what account they ought to have made of the apostles, that went far beyond them. See on chap. 11. 11. ye shall kill, &c.] Ye shall exercise all manner of cruelty on them, as death, blowes, banishment. in your synagogues] Chap. 10. 17. from city to city] Chap. 10. 23.