Quotes About Persecution

On My account, you will be brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles.

But when they hand you over, do not worry about how to respond or what to say. In that hour you will be given what to say.

When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next. Truly I tell you, you will not reach all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

It is enough for a disciple to be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!

But I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but have done to him whatever they wished. In the same way, the Son of Man will suffer at their hands.”

The rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.

Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town.

Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.

Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.

Then they spit in His face and struck Him. Others slapped Him

Then they spit on Him and took the staff and struck Him on the head repeatedly.

And those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads

In the same way, the chief priests, scribes, and elders mocked Him, saying,

But they themselves have no root, and they remain for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.

But I tell you that Elijah has indeed come, and they have done to him whatever they wished, just as it is written about him.”

will fail to receive a hundredfold in the present age—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, along with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.

But they seized the servant, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

He sent still another, and this one they killed. He sent many others; some they beat and others they killed.

So be on your guard. You will be delivered over to the councils and beaten in the synagogues. On My account you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them.

But when they arrest you and hand you over, do not worry beforehand what to say. Instead, speak whatever you are given at that time, for it will not be you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

And the chief priests began to accuse Him of many things.

They kept striking His head with a staff and spitting on Him. And they knelt down and bowed before Him.

In the same way, the chief priests and scribes mocked Him among themselves, saying, “He saved others, but He cannot save Himself!

Herod added this to them all: He locked John up in prison.