Bible Verses About Persecution

laying traps to catch him in something he might say.

I have an immersion to undergo — how pressured I feel till it’s over!

Just at that moment, some P’rushim came up and said to Yeshua, “Get out and go away from here, because Herod wants to kill you!”

But his countrymen hated him, and they sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We don’t want this man to rule over us.’

Every day he taught at the Temple. The head cohanim, the Torah-teachers and the leaders of the people tried to find a way of putting an end to him;

So they kept a close watch on the situation. They sent spies who hypocritically represented themselves as righteous, so that they might seize hold of something Yeshua said, as an excuse to hand him over to the jurisdiction and authority of the governor.

But before all this, they will arrest you and persecute you, handing you over to the synagogues and prisons; and you will be brought before kings and governors. This will all be on account of me,

and the head cohanim and the Torah-teachers began trying to find some way to get rid of Yeshua, because they were afraid of the people.

At this point the Adversary went into Y’hudah from K’riot, who was one of the Twelve.

He approached the head cohanim and the Temple guard and discussed with them how he might turn Yeshua over to them.

They were pleased and offered to pay him money.

Then Yeshua said to the head cohanim, the officers of the Temple guard and the elders who had come to seize him, “So you came out just as you would to the leader of a rebellion, with swords and clubs?

Every day I was there with you in the Temple court, yet you didn’t arrest me. But this is your hour — the hour when darkness rules.”

Meanwhile, the men who were holding Yeshua made fun of him. They beat him,

blindfolded him, and kept asking him, “Now, ‘prophesy’! Who hit you that time?”

And they said many other insulting things to him.

Herod and his soldiers treated Yeshua with contempt and made fun of him. Then, dressing him in an elegant robe, they sent him back to Pilate.

But they went on yelling insistently, demanding that he be executed on the stake; and their shouting prevailed.

and on account of this, the Judeans began harassing Yeshua because he did these things on Shabbat.

After this, Yeshua traveled around in the Galil, intentionally avoiding Y’hudah because the Judeans were out to kill him.

The world can’t hate you, but it does hate me, because I keep telling it how wicked its ways are.

Didn’t Moshe give you the Torah? Yet not one of you obeys the Torah! Why are you out to kill me?”

“You have a demon!” the crowd answered. “Who’s out to kill you?”

At this, they tried to arrest him; but no one laid a hand on him; because his time had not yet come.

The P’rushim heard the crowd whispering these things about Yeshua; so the head cohanim and the P’rushim sent some of the Temple guards to arrest him.