1367 verses about Persecution

Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none.

For many gave false testimony against him, and their testimony didn’t agree with each other.

Some stood up, and gave false testimony against him, saying,

The high priest stood up in the middle, and asked Jesus, “Have you no answer? What is it which these testify against you?”

Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, “Prophesy!” The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.

and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him, and said, “You were also with the Nazarene, Jesus!”

The maid saw him, and began again to tell those who stood by, “This is one of them.”

Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.

The chief priests accused him of many things.

Pilate again asked him, “Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!”

Pilate answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”

For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up.

Pilate again asked them, “What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?”

They cried out again, “Crucify him!”

Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they cried out exceedingly, “Crucify him!”

The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort.

They clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him.

They began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him.

When they had mocked him, they took the purple off him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him.

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison.

They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.

Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don’t withhold your coat also.

As many as don’t receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them.”

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.

They didn’t receive him, because he was traveling with his face set towards Jerusalem.

Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.

So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.

Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,

As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;

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

“I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of the angels of God.

When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don’t be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say;

Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

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

Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, for it can’t be that a prophet would perish outside of Jerusalem.’

For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.

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.

But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.”

He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.

He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him, and threw him out.

The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people—for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.

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.

It will turn out as a testimony for you.

Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer,

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake.

And not a hair of your head will perish.

“By your endurance you will win your lives.

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

Then he said to them, “But now, whoever has a purse, let him take it, and likewise a wallet. Whoever has none, let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword.

Jesus 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?

They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Peter followed from a distance.

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.

As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people were gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,

The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate.

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”

The chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him.

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

Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people,

but they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify him!”

Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done.

The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar,

and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

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

For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

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

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

Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.

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

Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill?

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

The Jews therefore said among themselves, “Where will this man go that we won’t find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.

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

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

His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” They threw him out.

Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.

Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”

The disciples told him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and are you going there again?”

But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the things which Jesus had done.

If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.

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.

But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,

The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, “See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him.”

Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,

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

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ John 13:16 If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.