Bible Verses About Persecution

Then the Pharises went out, and consulted against him, howe they might destroy him.

But whe Iesus knew it, he departed thece, and great multitudes folowed him, and he healed the al,

But when the Pharises heard it, they saide, This man casteth the deuils no otherwise out, but through Beelzebub the prince of deuils.

Yet hath he no roote in himselfe, and dureth but a season: for assoone as tribulation or persecution commeth because of the woorde, by and by he is offended.

Then came the Pharises and Sadduces, and did tempt him, desiring him to shew them a signe from heauen.

And Iesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye aske. Are ye able to drinke of the cup that I shall drinke of, and to be baptized with the baptisme that I shalbe baptized with? They said to him, We are able.

Heare another parable, There was a certaine housholder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and made a winepresse therein, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a strange countrey.

And when the time of the fruite drewe neere, hee sent his seruants to the husbandmen to receiue the fruites thereof.

And ye husbandmen tooke his seruants and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

Againe hee sent other seruants, moe then the first: and they did the like vnto them.

But last of all he sent vnto them his owne sonne, saying, They will reuerence my sonne.

But when the husbandmen saw the sonne, they saide among themselues, This is the heire: come, let vs kill him, and let vs take his inheritance.

So they tooke him, and cast him out of the vineyarde, and slewe him.

Then went the Pharises and tooke counsell how they might tangle him in talke.

Then assembled together the chiefe Priests, and the Scribes, and the Elders of ye people into the hall of the high Priest called Caiaphas:

And consulted together that they might take Iesus by subtiltie, and kill him.

Then one of the twelue, called Iudas Iscariot, went vnto the chiefe Priestes,

And said, What will ye giue me, and I will deliuer him vnto you? and they appoynted vnto him thirtie pieces of siluer.

And from that time, he sought opportunitie to betraie him.

Then sayde Iesus vnto him, Put vp thy sworde into his place: for all that take the sworde, shall perish with the sworde.

Nowe the chiefe Priestes and the Elders, and all the whole councill sought false witnesse against Iesus, to put him to death.

Then spet they in his face, and buffeted him, and other smote him with roddes,

Then answered all the people, and saide, His bloud be on vs, and on our children.

Thus let he Barabbas loose vnto them, and scourged Iesus, and deliuered him to be crucified.

Then the souldiers of the gouernour tooke Iesus into the common hall, and gathered about him the whole band,