Bible Verses About Persecution

And they stripped him, and put about him a skarlet robe,

And platted a crowne of thornes, and put it vpon his head, and a reede in his right hand, and bowed their knees before him, and mocked him, saying, God saue thee King of the Iewes,

And spitted vpon him, and tooke a reede, and smote him on the head.

And they that passed by, reuiled him, wagging their heades,

And saying, Thou that destroyest ye Temple, and buildest it in three dayes, saue thy selfe: if thou be ye Sonne of God, come downe from ye crosse.

Likewise also the hie Priests mocking him, with the Scribes, and Elders, and Pharises, said,

He saued others, but he cannot saue him selfe: if he be ye King of Israel, let him now come downe from ye crosse, and we will beleeue in him.

He trusted in God, let him deliuer him nowe, if he will haue him: for he saide, I am the Sonne of God.

The selfe same thing also ye theeues which were crucified with him, cast in his teeth.

And the Pharises departed, and straightway gathered a councill with the Herodians against him, that they might destroy him.

And when his kinsfolkes heard of it, they went out to laie hold on him: for they sayde that he was beside himselfe.

And the Scribes which came downe from Hierusalem, saide, He hath Beelzebub, and through the prince of the deuils he casteth out deuils.

But he shall receiue an hundred folde, now at this present, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands with persecutions, and in the world to come, eternall life.

And the Scribes and hie Priestes heard it, and sought howe to destroy him: for they feared him, because the whole multitude was astonied at his doctrine.

And they sent vnto him certaine of the Pharises, and of ye Herodians that they might take him in his talke.

And two daies after followed the feast of the Passeouer, and of vnleauened bread: and the hie Priests, and Scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.

And Iesus answered and saide to them, Ye be come out as against a thiefe with swordes, and with staues, to take me.

And some began to spit at him, and to couer his face, and to beate him with fists, and to say vnto him, Prophesie. And the sergeants smote him with their roddes.

Then all that were in the Synagogue, when they heard it, were filled with wrath,

And rose vp, and thrust him out of the citie, and led him vnto the edge of the hil, whereon their citie was built, to cast him downe headlong.

Then they were filled full of madnes, and communed one with another, what they might doe to Iesus.

Blessed are ye when men hate you, and when they separate you, and reuile you, and put out your name as euill, for the Sonne of mans sake.

The Sonne of man is come, and eateth and drinketh: and ye say, Beholde, a man which is a glutton, and a drinker of wine, a friend of Publicanes and sinners:

But some of them said, He casteth out deuils through Beelzebub the chiefe of ye deuils.

And as he sayde these things vnto them, the Scribes and Pharises began to vrge him sore, and to prouoke him to speake of many things,