Bible Verses About Persecution

And the Pharisees having gone forth, held a consultation against him, how they might destroy him,

and Jesus having known, withdrew thence, and there followed him great multitudes, and he healed them all,

but the Pharisees having heard, said, `This one doth not cast out demons, except by Beelzeboul, ruler of the demons.'

and he hath not root in himself, but is temporary, and persecution or tribulation having happened because of the word, immediately he is stumbled.

And the Pharisees and Sadducees having come, tempting, did question him, to shew to them a sign from the heaven,

And Jesus answering said, `Ye have not known what ye ask for yourselves; are ye able to drink of the cup that I am about to drink? and with the baptism that I am baptized with, to be baptized?' They say to him, `We are able.'

`Hear ye another simile: There was a certain man, a householder, who planted a vineyard, and did put a hedge round it, and digged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad.

`And when the season of the fruits came nigh, he sent his servants unto the husbandmen, to receive the fruits of it,

and the husbandmen having taken his servants, one they scourged, and one they killed, and one they stoned.

`Again he sent other servants more than the first, and they did to them in the same manner.

`And at last he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son;

and the husbandmen having seen the son, said among themselves, This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and may possess his inheritance;

and having taken him, they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him;

Then the Pharisees having gone, took counsel how they might ensnare him in words,

Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, to the court of the chief priest who was called Caiaphas;

and they consulted together that they might take Jesus by guile, and kill him ,

Then one of the twelve, who is called Judas Iscariot, having gone unto the chief priests, said,

`What are ye willing to give me, and I will deliver him up to you?' and they weighed out to him thirty silverlings,

and from that time he was seeking a convenient season to deliver him up.

Then saith Jesus to him, `Turn back thy sword to its place; for all who did take the sword, by the sword shall perish;

And the chief priests, and the elders, and all the council, were seeking false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death,

Then did they spit in his face and buffet him, and others did slap,

and all the people answering said, `His blood is upon us, and upon our children!'

Then did he release to them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him up that he may be crucified;

then the soldiers of the governor having taken Jesus to the Praetorium, did gather to him all the band;