Bible Verses About Martyrdom: Christians

But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the holy ones in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.