Bible Verses About Persecution

And stripping him, they put a scarlet cloak about him.

And platting a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand. And bowing the knee before him, they mocked him, saying: Hail, King of the Jews.

And spitting upon him, they took the reed and struck his head.

And they that passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,

And saying: Vah, thou that destroyest the temple of God and in three days dost rebuild it: save thy own self. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.

In like manner also the chief priests, with the scribes and ancients, mocking said:

He saved others: himself he cannot save. If he be the king of Israel, let him now come down from the cross: and we will believe him.

He trusted in God: let him now deliver him if he will have him. For he said: I am the Son of God.

And the selfsame thing the thieves also that were crucified with him reproached him with.

And the Pharisees going out, immediately made a consultation with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

And when his friends had heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him. For they said: He is become mad.

And the scribes who were come down from Jerusalem, said: He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of devils he casteth out devils.

Who shall not receive an hundred times as much, now in this time: houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions: and in the world to come life everlasting.

Which when the chief priests and the scribes had heard, they sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because the whole multitude was in admiration at his doctrine.

And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians: that they should catch him in his words.

Now the feast of the pasch and of the Azymes was after two days: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might by some wile lay hold on him and kill him.

And Jesus answering, said to them: Are you come out as to a robber, with swords and staves to apprehend me?

And some began to spit on him and to cover his face and to buffet him and to say unto him: Prophesy. And the servants struck him with the palms their hands.

And all they in the synagogue, hearing these things, were filled with anger.

And they rose up and thrust him out of the city: and they brought him to the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.

And they were filled with madness: and they talked one with another, what they might do to Jesus.

Blessed shall you be when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you and shall reproach you and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

The Son of man is come eating and drinking. And you say: Behold a man that is a glutton and a drinker of wine, a friend of publicans and sinners.

But some of them said: He casteth out devils by Beelzebub, the prince of devils.

And as he was saying these things to them, the Pharisees and the lawyers began violently to urge him and to oppress his mouth about many things,