Bible Verses About Persecution

lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.

But I have a immersion to be immersed with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

On that same day, some Pharisees came, saying to him, “Get out of here, and go away, for Herod wants to kill you.”

But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’

He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.

They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.

The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.

Satan entered into Judah, who was also called Iscariot, who was numbered with the twelve.

He went away, and talked with the chief priests and captains about how he might deliver him to them.

They were glad, and agreed to give him money.

Yeshua said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come against him, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?

When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”

The men who held Yeshua mocked him and beat him.

Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, “Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?”

They spoke many other things against him, insulting him.

Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.

But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.

For this cause the Judeans persecuted Yeshua, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

After these things, Yeshua was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Judeans sought to kill him.

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

Didn’t Moses give you the Torah, and yet none of you keeps the Torah? Why do you seek to kill me?”

The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?”

They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.