Bible Verses About Persecution

I know that ye are Abrahams seede, but yee seeke to kill mee, because my worde hath no place in you.

But nowe ye goe about to kill mee, a man that haue told you the trueth, which I haue heard of God: this did not Abraham.

Then answered the Iewes, and said vnto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritane, and hast a deuil?

Then said the Iewes to him, Now know we that thou hast a deuill. Abraham is dead, and the Prophets: and thou sayest, If a man keepe my worde, he shall neuer taste of death.

Then tooke they vp stones, to cast at him, but Iesus hid himselfe, and went out of the Temple: And hee passed through the middes of them, and so went his way.

And many of them sayd, He hath a deuill, and is mad: why heare ye him?

Then ye Iewes againe tooke vp stones, to stone him.

Againe they went about to take him: but he escaped out of their handes,

Now both the high Priestes and the Pharises had giuen a commandement, that if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.

Hereafter will I not speake many things vnto you: for the prince of this world commeth, and hath nought in me.

If the worlde hate you, ye knowe that it hated me before you.

Remember the word that I said vnto you, The seruant is not greater then his master. If they haue persecuted me, they will persecute you also: if they haue kept my worde, they will also keepe yours.

But all these things will they doe vnto you for my Names sake, because they haue not knowen him that sent me.

If I had not done workes among them which none other man did, they had not had sinne: but nowe haue they both seene, and haue hated both me, and my Father.

But it is that the worde might be fulfilled, that is written in their Lawe, They hated me without a cause.

And these things will they doe vnto you, because they haue not knowen ye Father, nor me.

When he had spoken these thinges, one of the officers which stoode by, smote Iesus with his rod, saying, Answerest thou the hie Priest so?

Iesus answered him, If I haue euill spoken, beare witnes of the euil: but if I haue well spoken, why smitest thou me?

Pilate then went out vnto them, and said, What accusation bring yee against this man?

They answered, and saide vnto him, If hee were not an euill doer, we woulde not haue deliuered him vnto thee.

Him, I say, being deliuered by the determinate counsell, and foreknowledge of God, after you had taken, with wicked handes you haue crucified and slaine.

The God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Iacob, the God of our fathers hath glorified his Sonne Iesus, whom ye betrayed, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had iudged him to be deliuered.

But ye denied the Holy one and the Iust, and desired a murtherer to be giuen you,

And killed the Lord of life, whome God hath raised from the dead, whereof we are witnesses.

And they layde handes on them, and put them in holde, vntill the next day: for it was now euentide.