Bible Verses About Martyrdom: Christians

But Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,

and I persecuted this Way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

And this I also did in Jerusalem: and I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.