Bible Verses About Persecution

I know you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill Me because My word has no place within you.

But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham never did such a thing.

The Jews answered Him, “Are we not right to say that You are a Samaritan and You have a demon?”

“Now we know that You have a demon!” declared the Jews. “Abraham died, and so did the prophets, yet You say that anyone who keeps Your word will never taste death.

At this, they picked up stones to throw at Him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple area.

Many of them said, “He is demon-possessed and insane. Why would you listen to Him?”

At this, the Jews again picked up stones to stone Him.

At this, they tried again to seize Him, but He escaped their grasp.

But the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where He was must report it, so that they could arrest Him.

I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming, and he has no claim on Me.

If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.

Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.

But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.

If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.

But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’

They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.

When Jesus had said this, one of the officers standing nearby slapped Him in the face and said, “Is this how You answer the high priest?”

Jesus replied, “If I said something wrong, testify as to what was wrong. But if I spoke correctly, why did you strike Me?”

So Pilate went out to them and asked, “What accusation are you bringing against this man?”

“If He were not a criminal,” they replied, “we would not have handed Him over to you.”

He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus. You handed Him over and rejected Him before Pilate, even though he had decided to release Him.

You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.

You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of the fact.

They seized Peter and John, and because it was evening, they put them in custody until the next day.