<p>21:16 <i>But you shall be delivered up even by your parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and they shall kill some of you</i>- This indicates that the persecuting power will infiltrate the ecclesias, as the Jews and Romans did to the early church in order to bring about their persecution. Mic. 7:2-9 is a clear prophecy of Christ's sufferings. But embedded in it are words which are quoted in Lk. 21:16 and Mt. 10:36 concerning the latter day tribulation of the believers: &quot;the son dishonoureth the father...a man's enemies are the men of his own house&rdquo;. In similar manner, some of the prophecies of Israel's latter day sufferings speak in the same context of those of Christ. Mic. 5:1 is an example: &quot;...he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel (Christ) with a rod upon the cheek&quot;. The whole of Amos 5 can be scanned for connections with both the future tribulation of Israel, and also the sufferings of Christ. See on Mk. 13:13.<br />&quot;Some of you shall they cause to be put to death... but there shall not an hair of your head perish&quot; can only be reconciled by appreciating how miraculously the disciples were preserved in order to inspire and co-ordinate the rest of the body. Perhaps a similar group of elders (&quot;the two witnesses&quot;?) will be preserved in the last days too.</p>