Second Option - Gospel: Matthew 10:16-22

¹⁶ ”Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
¹⁷ Beware of men; for they will deliver you up to councils, and flog you in their synagogues,
¹⁸ and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear testimony before them and the Gentiles.
¹⁹ When they deliver you up, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say; for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour;
²⁰ for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
²¹ Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death;
²² and you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.