Bible Verses About Persecution

laying wait for him, to catch something out of his mouth.

But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!

In that very hour there came certain Pharisees, saying to him, Get thee out, and go hence: for Herod would fain kill thee.

But his citizens hated him, and sent an ambassage after him, saying, We will not that this man reign over us.

And he was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people sought to destroy him:

And they watched him, and sent forth spies, who feigned themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his speech, so as to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor.

But before all these things, they shall lay their hands on you, and shall persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.

And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death; for they feared the people.

And Satan entered into Judas who was called Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.

And he went away, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might deliver him unto them.

And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.

And Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and elders, that were come against him, Are ye come out, as against a robber, with swords and staves?

When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched not forth your hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.

And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and beat him.

And they blindfolded him, and asked him, saying, Prophesy: who is he that struck thee?

And many other things spake they against him, reviling him.

And Herod with his soldiers set him at nought, and mocked him, and arraying him in gorgeous apparel sent him back to Pilate.

But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. And their voices prevailed.

And for this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.

And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Judæa, because the Jews sought to kill him.

The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its works are evil.

Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you doeth the law? Why seek ye to kill me?

The multitude answered, Thou hast a demon: who seeketh to kill thee?

They sought therefore to take him: and no man laid his hand on him, because his hour was not yet come.

The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him; and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to take him.