Bible Verses About Persecution

I know you are the seed of Avraham. Yet you are out to kill me, because what I am saying makes no headway in you.

As it is, you are out to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Avraham did nothing like that!

The Judeans answered him, “Aren’t we right in saying you are from Shomron and have a demon?”

The Judeans said to him, “Now we know for sure that you have a demon! Avraham died, and so did the prophets; yet you say, ‘Whoever obeys my teaching will never taste death.’

At this, they picked up stones to throw at him; but Yeshua was hidden and left the Temple grounds.

Many of them said, “He has a demon!” and “He’s meshugga! Why do you listen to him?”

Once again the Judeans picked up rocks in order to stone him.

One more time they tried to arrest him, but he slipped out of their hands.

Moreover, the head cohanim and the P’rushim had given orders that anyone knowing Yeshua’s whereabouts should inform them, so that they could have him arrested.

“I won’t be talking with you much longer, because the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me;

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

Remember what I told you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you too; if they kept my word, they will keep yours too.

But they will do all this to you on my account, because they don’t know the One who sent me.

If I had not done in their presence works which no one else ever did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now, they have seen them and have hated both me and my Father.

But this has happened in order to fulfill the words in their Torah which read, ‘They hated me for no reason at all.’

They will do these things because they have understood neither the Father nor me.

At these words, one of the guards standing by slapped Yeshua in the face and said, “This is how you talk to the cohen hagadol?”

Yeshua answered him, “If I said something wrong, state publicly what was wrong; but if I was right, why are you hitting me?”

So Pilate went outside to them and said, “What charge are you bringing against this man?”

They answered, “If he hadn’t done something wrong, we wouldn’t have brought him to you.”

This man was arrested in accordance with God’s predetermined plan and foreknowledge; and, through the agency of persons not bound by the Torah, you nailed him up on a stake and killed him!

The God of Avraham, Yitz’chak and Ya‘akov, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Yeshua — the same Yeshua you handed over and disowned before Pilate, even after he had decided to release him.

You denied the holy and innocent one, and instead asked for the reprieve of a murderer!

You killed the author of life! “But God has raised him from the dead! Of this we are witnesses.

The Temple police arrested them; and since it was already evening, they put them in custody overnight.