Bible Verses About Persecution

`I have known that ye are seed of Abraham, but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you;

and now, ye seek to kill me--a man who hath spoken to you the truth I heard from God; this Abraham did not;

The Jews, therefore, answered and said to him, `Do we not say well, that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a demon?'

The Jews, therefore, said to him, `Now we have known that thou hast a demon; Abraham did die, and the prophets, and thou dost say, If any one may keep my word, he shall not taste of death--to the age!

they took up, therefore, stones that they may cast at him, but Jesus hid himself, and went forth out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

and many of them said, `He hath a demon, and is mad, why do ye hear him?'

Therefore, again, did the Jews take up stones that they may stone him;

Therefore were they seeking again to seize him, and he went forth out of their hand,

and both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if any one may know where he is, he may shew it , so that they may seize him.

I will no more talk much with you, for the ruler of this world doth come, and in me he hath nothing;

if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;

`Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep;

but all these things will they do to you, because of my name, because they have not known Him who sent me;

if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father;

but--that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law--They hated me without a cause.

and these things they will do to you, because they did not know the Father, nor me.

And he having said these things, one of the officers standing by did give Jesus a slap, saying, `Thus dost thou answer the chief priest?'

Jesus answered him, `If I spake ill, testify concerning the ill; and if well, why me dost thou smite?'

Pilate, therefore, went forth unto them, and said, `What accusation do ye bring against this man?'

they answered and said to him, `If he were not an evil doer, we had not delivered him to thee.'

this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified--ye did slay;

`The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, did glorify His child Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, he having given judgment to release him ,

and ye the Holy and Righteous One did deny, and desired a man--a murderer--to be granted to you,

and the Prince of the life ye did kill, whom God did raise out of the dead, of which we are witnesses;

and they laid hands upon them, and did put them in custody unto the morrow, for it was evening already;