Bible Verses About Persecution

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

But when the P'rushim heard of it, they said, "It is only by Ba`al-Zibbul" -- the ruler of the demons -- "that this man drives out demons."

but has no root in himself. So he stays on for a while; but as soon as some trouble or persecution arises on account of the message, he immediately falls away.

Then some P'rushim and Tz'dukim came to trap Yeshua by asking him to show them a miraculous sign from Heaven.

But Yeshua answered, "You people don't know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I am about to drink?" They said to him, "We can."

"Now listen to another parable. There was a farmer who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower; then he rented it to tenants and left.

When harvest-time came, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the crop.

But the tenants seized his servants -- this one they beat up, that one they killed, another they stoned.

So he sent some other servants, more than the first group, and they did the same to them.

Finally, he sent them his son, saying, `My son they will respect.'

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, `This is the heir. Come, let's kill him and take his inheritance!'

So they grabbed him, threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

Then the P'rushim went away and put together a plan to trap Yeshua with his own words.

Then the head cohanim and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of Kayafa the cohen hagadol.

They made plans to arrest Yeshua surreptitiously and have him put to death;

Then one of the Twelve, the one called Y'hudah from K'riot, went to the head cohanim

and said, "What are you willing to give me if I turn Yeshua over to you?" They counted out thirty silver coins and gave them to Y'hudah.n

From then on he looked for a good opportunity to betray him.

Yeshua said to him, "Put your sword back where it belongs, for everyone who uses the sword will die by the sword.

The head cohanim and the whole Sanhedrin looked for some false evidence against Yeshua, so that they might put him to death.

Then they spit in his face and pounded him with their fists; and those who were beating him

All the people answered, "His blood is on us and on our children!"

Then he released to them Bar-Abba; but Yeshua, after having him whipped, he handed over to be executed on a stake.

The governor's soldiers took Yeshua into the headquarters building, and the whole battalion gathered around him.