Bible Verses About Persecution

Laying wait for him, and seeking to catche some thing of his mouth, whereby they might accuse him.

Notwithstanding I must be baptized with a baptisme, and how am I grieued, till it be ended?

The same day there came certaine Pharises, and said vnto him, Depart, and goe hence: for Herod will kill thee.

Nowe his citizens hated him, and sent an ambassage after him, saying, We will not haue this man to reigne ouer vs.

And he taught dayly in the Temple. And the hie Priests and the Scribes, and the chiefe of the people sought to destroy him.

And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should faine themselues iust men, to take him in his talke, and to deliuer him vnto the power and authoritie of the gouernour.

But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, deliuering you vp to the assemblies, and into prisons, and bring you before Kings and rulers for my Names sake.

And the hie Priests and Scribes sought how they might kill him: for they feared the people.

Then entred Satan into Iudas, who was called Iscariot, and was of the nomber of the twelue.

And he went his way, and communed with the hie Priestes and captaines, how he might betray him to them.

So they were glad, and agreed to giue him money.

Then Iesus said vnto the hie Priests, and captaines of the Temple, and the Elders which were come to him, Bee ye come out as vnto a theefe with swordes and staues?

When I was dayly with you in the Temple, yee stretched not foorth the handes against mee: but this is your very houre, and the power of darkenesse.

And the men that helde Iesus, mocked him, and strooke him.

And when they had blindfolded him, they smote him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophecie who it is that smote thee.

And many other thinges blasphemously spake they against him.

And Herod with his men of warre, despised him, and mocked him, and arayed him in white, and sent him againe to Pilate.

But they were instant with loude voyces, and required that he might be crucified: and the voyces of them and of the hie Priests preuailed.

And therefore the Iewes did persecute Iesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the Sabbath day.

After these things, Iesus walked in Galile, and woulde not walke in Iudea: for the Iewes sought to kill him.

The world can not hate you: but me it hateth, because I testifie of it, that the workes thereof are euill.

Did not Moses giue you a Law, and yet none of you keepeth the lawe? Why goe ye about to kill me?

The people answered, and said, Thou hast a deuil: who goeth about to kill thee?

Then they sought to take him, but no man layde handes on him, because his houre was not yet come.

The Pharises heard that the people murmured these thinges of him, and the Pharises, and high Priestes sent officers to take him.