Bible Verses About Persecution

I know that you are Abraham’s seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.

But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this.

Then the Judeans answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”

Then the Judeans said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’

Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Yeshua was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through their midst, and so passed by.

Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”

Therefore the Judeans took up stones again to stone him.

They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.

Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.

I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

But all these things will they do to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Yeshua with his hand, saying, “Do you answer the high priest like that?”

Yeshua answered him, “If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?”

Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”

They answered him, “If this man weren’t an evildoer, we wouldn’t have delivered him up to you.”

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Yeshua, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.

But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.

They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.