Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 21:15

15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay, nor resist.

See the Notes on Matth. 10.19, 20. Mark 13.11. we must not think, that our Saviour by this forbids us what is naturally impossible for us to avoid: That is, the forming of those Words first in our thoughts which we speak, nor yet a prudent thinking before hand what we should speak, but an anxious thinking what we should speak; such a thinking as should argue a distrust in God, to carry us through with that Testimony, which he calleth us forth to give. For, saith he, I will give you a Mouth and Wisdom. So he promised Moses, Exod. 4.12, 15. That he would be with his Mouth, and teach him what to say; and he tells Ezechiel, Ch. 3.27. that he would open his Mouth; here he promiseth the Disciples a Mouth and Wisdom, that is, such Wisdom, as should guide their Tongues, when they should be called out to testify for him. This was made good to Stephen, Acts 6.10. The Libertines, Cyrenians, Alexandrians, those of Cilicia, and Asia were not able to resist the Wisdom and Spirit by which he spake. Thus it fared with Peter and Iohn, Acts 4.10.13. By Resist we must understand Conquer, or Victoriously resist. The Enemies of the Gospel have been always opposing, and resisting, the Patrons and Witnesses of, and for the truth, but never yet made a Conquest; let any indifferent reader but read, and judge the accounts we have of the conflicts betwixt the Papists and the Protestants in the beginning of the Reformation, or betwixt the Papists, and the Martyrs in Queen Mary's Days in this Nation, and judge on whose side, there was most Scripture and Reason. This promise hath been fulfilling from Christ's time even to this Day. It is true, the Enemies have been able to kill the Persons of Christ's Disciples; they Stoned Stephen, killed Iames with the Sword, Acts. 7. & Ch. 12. They crucified Peter, and Andrew, stoned Philip, banished Iohn into Pathmos, fleaed Bartholomew, Beheaded Matthew, and various ways destroyed many in the first, and most furious times, and have Slain many Thousands since; but the Truths which they Preached, prevailed.