马太福音 10:20

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

因為說話的不是你們，而是你們的父的靈，是他在你們裡面說話。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
因 为 不 是 你 们 自 己 说 的 ， 乃 是 你 们 父 的 灵 在 你 们 里 头 说 的 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁶ "Listen, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. So be as clever as snakes and as innocent as doves. ¹⁷ Be careful of people, because they will arrest you and take you to court and whip you in their synagogues. ¹⁸ Because of me you will be taken to stand before governors and kings, and you will tell them and the non-Jewish people about me. ¹⁹ When you are arrested, don't worry about what to say or how to say it. At that time you will be given the things to say. ²⁰ It will not really be you speaking but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. ²¹ "Brothers will give their own brothers to be killed, and fathers will give their own children to be killed. Children will fight against their own parents and have them put to death. ²² All people will hate you because you follow me, but those people who keep their faith until the end will be saved. ²³ When you are treated badly in one city, run to another city. I tell you the truth, you will not finish going through all the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes. ²⁴ "A student is not better than his teacher, and a servant is not better than his master. ²⁵ A student should be satisfied to become like his teacher; a servant should be satisfied to become like his master. If the head of the family is called Beelzebul, then the other members of the family will be called worse names!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

but: 2 Samuel 23:2, Mark 12:36, Luke 11:13, Luke 21:15, Acts 2:4, Acts 4:8, Acts 6:10, Acts 7:55, Acts 7:56, Acts 28:25, 1 Peter 1:12, 2 Peter 1:21

your: Matthew 6:32, Luke 12:30-32

Reciprocal: Exodus 4:12 - General Proverbs 16:1 - and Mark 13:11 - take Luke 21:14 - General John 14:17 - shall Acts 1:4 - the promise Romans 8:26 - but 1 Corinthians 15:10 - yet 2 Corinthians 3:5 - but 2 Corinthians 12:9 - My grace 2 Corinthians 13:3 - Christ

Cross-References

Genesis 10:1
This is the family history of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah. After the flood these three men had sons.

Genesis 10:6
The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

Genesis 10:9
He was a great hunter before the Lord , which is why people say someone is "like Nimrod, a great hunter before the Lord ."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For it is not ye that speak,.... Not but that they were to speak the words, and did; but then both the things they spoke, and the very words in which they spoke them, were not of themselves, but were suggested and dictated by the Spirit of God; for as "the preparation of the heart" in them, so "the answer of the tongue" by them, were both "from the Lord": the Spirit, he was the efficient cause, they were only instruments; for not they of themselves spoke; or not so much they,

but the Spirit of your father, which speaketh in you, or "by you": what they should say was not to be dictated by their own spirit or natural understanding, nor by an angel, but by the Spirit of God; called the "Spirit of" their "father", because he proceeds from him, is of the same nature with him, and is the reason of his being given to them: and this character of him might serve to strengthen their faith in the expectation of him, and in the assistance promised, and to be had by him; since he was the spirit of him, who stood in the relation of a father to them, and bore a paternal affection for them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Take no thought - That is, be not anxious or unduly solicitous. See the notes at Matthew 6:25. This was a full promise that they should be inspired, and was a most seasonable consolation. Poor, and ignorant, and obscure fishermen would naturally be solicitous what they should say before the great men of the earth. Eastern people regarded kings as raised far above common mortals - as approaching to divinity. How consoling, then, the assurance that God would aid them and speak within them!

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 10:20. For it is - the Spirit of your Father, c.] This was an extraordinary promise, and was literally fulfilled to those first preachers of the Gospel and to them it was essentially necessary, because the New Testament dispensation was to be fully opened by their extraordinary inspiration. In a certain measure, it may be truly said, that the Holy Spirit animates the true disciples of Christ, and enables them to speak. The Head speaks in his members, by his Spirit; and it is the province of the Spirit of God to speak for God. Neither surprise, defect of talents, nor even ignorance itself, could hurt the cause of God, in the primitive times, when the hearts and minds of those Divine men were influenced by the Holy Spirit.

Your Father — This is added to excite and increase their confidence in God.