Matthew 10:20

“For it is not ye that speak, etc.] 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…”

“For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you--How remarkably this has been verified, the whole history of persecution thrillingly proclaims--from the Acts of the Apostles to the latest martyrology.”

“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! return to 'Top of Page'”

“but: Sa2 23:2; Mar 12:36; Luk 11:13, Luk 21:15; Act 2:4, Act 4:8, Act 6:10, Act 7:55, Act 7:56; Act 28:25; Pe1 1:12; Pe2 1:21 your: Mat 6:32; Luk 12:30-32 Matthew 10:21”