Bible Verses About Persecution: Lawful means may be used to escape

Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.”

But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel, until the Son of Man has come.

But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.

Yeshua, perceiving that, withdrew from there. Great multitudes followed him; and he healed them all,