Luke 12:12 Cross References

Luke 12:12

12: for the Holy Spirit will teach you what needs to be said even as you are standing there."

For it won't be you doing the talking--it will be the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

for I will give you the right words and such wisdom that none of your opponents will be able to reply!

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "Leaders and elders of our nation,

"Who makes mouths?" the LORD asked him. "Who makes people so they can speak or not speak, hear or not hear, see or not see? Is it not I, the LORD?

None of them was able to stand against the wisdom and Spirit by which Stephen spoke.

This was Stephen's reply: "Brothers and honorable fathers, listen to me. Our glorious God appeared to our ancestor Abraham in Mesopotamia before he moved to Haran.
God told him, 'Leave your native land and your relatives, and come to the land that I will show you.'
So Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran until his father died. Then God brought him here to the land where you now live.
But God gave him no inheritance here, not even one square foot of land. God did promise, however, that eventually the whole country would belong to Abraham and his descendants--though he had no children yet.
But God also told him that his descendants would live in a foreign country where they would be mistreated as slaves for four hundred years.

Then Agrippa said to Paul, "You may speak in your defense." So Paul, with a gesture of his hand, started his defense:
"I am fortunate, King Agrippa, that you are the one hearing my defense against all these accusations made by the Jewish leaders,
for I know you are an expert on Jewish customs and controversies. Now please listen to me patiently!
"As the Jewish leaders are well aware, I was given a thorough Jewish training from my earliest childhood among my own people and in Jerusalem.
If they would admit it, they know that I have been a member of the Pharisees, the strictest sect of our religion.

But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed steadily upward into heaven and saw the glory of God, and he saw Jesus standing in the place of honor at God's right hand.

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