Bible Verses About Persecution

They stripped off his clothes and put on him a scarlet robe,

wove thorn-branches into a crown and put it on his head, and put a stick in his right hand. Then they kneeled down in front of him and made fun of him: "Hail to the King of the Jews!"

They spit on him and used the stick to beat him about the head.

People passing by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads

and saying, "So you can destroy the Temple, can you, and rebuild it in three days? Save yourself, if you are the Son of God, and come down from the stake!"

Likewise, the head cohanim jeered at him, along with the Torah-teachers and elders,

"He saved others, but he can't save himself!" "So he's King of Isra'el, is he? Let him come down now from the stake! Then we'll believe him!"

"He trusted God? So, let him rescue him if he wants him!s After all, he did say, `I'm the Son of God'!"

Even the robbers nailed up with him insulted him in the same way.

The P'rushim went out and immediately began plotting with some members of Herod's party how to do away with him.

When his family heard about this, they set out to take charge of him; for they said, "He's out of his mind!"

The Torah-teachers who came down from Yerushalayim said, "He has Ba`alZibbul in him," and "It is by the ruler of the demons that he expels the demons."

who will not receive a hundred times over, now, in the `olam hazeh, homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and lands -- with persecutions! -- and in the `olam haba, eternal life.

The head cohanim and the Torah-teachers heard what he said and tried to find a way to do away with him; they were afraid of him, because the crowds were utterly taken by his teaching.

Next they sent some P'rushim and some members of Herod's party to him in order to trap him with a sh'eilah.

It was now two days before Pesach (that is, the festival of Matzah), and the head cohanim and the Torah-teachers were trying to find some way to arrest Yeshua surreptitiously and have him put to death;

Yeshua addressed them: "So you came out to take me with swords and clubs, the way you would the leader of a rebellion?

Then some began spitting at him; and after blindfolding him, they started pounding him with their fists and saying to him, "Let's see you prophesy!" And as the guards took him, they beat him too.

On hearing this, everyone in the synagogue was filled with fury.

They rose up, drove him out of town and dragged him to the edge of the cliff on which their town was built, intending to throw him off.

But the others were filled with fury and began discussing with each other what they could do to Yeshua.

"How blessed you are whenever people hate you and ostracize you and insult you and denounce you as a criminal on account of the Son of Man.

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking; and you say, `Aha! A glutton and a drunkard! A friend of tax-collectors and sinners!'

But some of them said, “It is by Ba‘al-Zibbul” — the ruler of the demons — “that he expels the demons.”

As Yeshua left that place, the Torah-teachers and the P’rushim began to oppose him bitterly and to provoke him to express his views on all sorts of subjects,