Cellini's statue of Perseus with the head of Medusa, Loggia of Piazza della Signoria. Florence, Italy.

Matthew 10:16

https://biblehub.com/matthew/10-16.htm

https://www.gotquestions.org/sheep-in-the-midst-of-wolves.html

What does it mean to be sheep in the midst of wolves (Matthew 10:16)?

As Jesus readied His twelve disciples to go out and minister, first He gave detailed guidelines for their early mission (Matthew 10:5–15), and then He prepared them for opposition and persecution: “Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves” (Matthew 10:16, ESV).

Jesus knew that His messengers would encounter fierce resistance, so He immediately dismissed any idealistic notion of what it meant to be His servant. He told them that persecution and betrayal would come from unexpected places and all kinds of people, even family and friends (Matthew 10:21–22, 34–36). Jesus also knew that many would respond to the disciples’ message, so they had to go. To be as “sheep amidst the wolves” is the Lord’s fitting imagery portraying how we obey His call and take the message of salvation to receptive souls scattered amid a crowd of hostile challengers.

I think we here can relate all too well.

'The Accolade', 1901. Artist: Edmund Blair Leighton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accolade

The ceremony by which a member of the public is raised to knighthood by the dictate of a sovereign.

By the way, all of these look to be easily reverse-image searchable via tineye.com for those that dont know this site yet, helps finding the source and the context.

Johnny Cash, "Hurt" --

"I will make you hurt."

... a hideous woman-faced Gorgon whose hair had been turned to snakes;

A sort of early Nancy Pelosi, then?

"The Course of Empire, Destruction," painting by Thomas Cole.

We are on a course of destruction.