Bible Verses About Persecution

and having unclothed him, they put around him a crimson cloak,

and having plaited him a crown out of thorns they put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand, and having kneeled before him, they were mocking him, saying, `Hail, the king of the Jews.'

And having spit on him, they took the reed, and were smiting on his head;

and those passing by were speaking evil of him, wagging their heads,

and saying, `Thou that art throwing down the sanctuary, and in three days building it , save thyself; if Son thou art of God, come down from the cross.'

And in like manner also the chief priests mocking, with the scribes and elders, said,

`Others he saved; himself he is not able to save! If he be King of Israel, let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe him;

he hath trusted on God, let Him now deliver him, if He wish him, because he said--Son of God I am;'

with the same also the robbers, who were crucified with him, were reproaching him.

and the Pharisees having gone forth, immediately, with the Herodians, were taking counsel against him how they might destroy him.

and his friends having heard, went forth to lay hold on him, for they said that he was beside himself,

and the scribes who are from Jerusalem having come down, said--`He hath Beelzeboul,' and--`By the ruler of the demons he doth cast out the demons.'

who may not receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and fields, with persecutions, and in the age that is coming, life age-during;

And the scribes and the chief priests heard, and they were seeking how they shall destroy him, for they were afraid of him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching;

and they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they may ensnare him in discourse,

And the passover and the unleavened food were after two days, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, by guile, having taken hold of him, they might kill him;

And Jesus answering said to them, `As against a robber ye came out, with swords and sticks, to take me!

and certain began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say to him, `Prophesy;' and the officers were striking him with their palms.

And all in the synagogue were filled with wrath, hearing these things,

and having risen, they put him forth without the city, and brought him unto the brow of the hill on which their city had been built--to cast him down headlong,

and they were filled with madness, and were speaking with one another what they might do to Jesus.

`Happy are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you, and shall reproach, and shall cast forth your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake--

the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and ye say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners;

and certain of them said, `By Beelzeboul, ruler of the demons, he doth cast forth the demons;'

And in his speaking these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began fearfully to urge and to press him to speak about many things,