Bible Verses About Persecution

I know that you are the children of Abraham: but you seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.

But now you seek to kill me, a man who have spoken the truth to you, which I have heard of God. This Abraham did not.

The Jews therefore answered and said to him: Do not we say well that thou art a Samaritan and hast a devil?

The Jews therefore said: Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets: and thou sayest: If any man keep my word, he shall not taste death for ever.

They took up stones therefore to cast at him. But Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.

And many of them said: He hath a devil and is mad. Why hear you him?

The Jews then took up stones to stone him.

They sought therefore to take him: and he escaped out of their hands.

Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.

I will not now speak many things with you. For the prince of this world: cometh: and in me he hath not any thing.

If the world hate you, know ye that it hath hated me before you.

Remember my word that I said to you: The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.

But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake: because they know not him that sent me.

If I had not done among them the works that no other man hath done, they would not have sin: but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law: they hated me without cause.

And these things will they do to you; because they have not known the Father nor me.

And when he had said these things, one of the servants standing by gave Jesus a blow, saying: Answerest thou the high priest so?

Jesus answered him: If I have spoken evil, give testimony of the evil; but if well, why strikest thou me?

Pilate therefore went out to them, and said: What accusation bring you against this man?

They answered and said to him: If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up to thee.

This same being delivered up, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you by the hands of wicked men have crucified and slain.

The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus, whom you indeed delivered up and denied before the face of Pilate, when he judged he should be released.

But you denied the Holy One and the Just: and desired a murderer to be granted unto you.

But the author of life you killed, whom God hath raised from the dead: of which we are witnesses.

And they laid hands upon them and put them in hold till the next day: for it was now evening.