Bible Verses About Persecution: Lawful means may be used to escape

After they had gone, an angel of ADONAI appeared to Yosef in a dream and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother, and escape to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you to leave. For Herod is going to look for the child in order to kill him."

When you are persecuted in one town, run away to another. Yes indeed; I tell you, you will not finish going through the towns of Isra'el before the Son of Man comes.

But the P'rushim went out and began plotting how they might do away with Yeshua.

Aware of this, he left that area. Many people followed him; and he healed them all