Quotes About Persecution

They got up, drove Him out of the town, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw Him over the cliff.

Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man.

Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For their fathers treated the prophets in the same way.

Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ëI will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and others they will persecute.í

When you are brought before synagogues, rulers, and authorities, do not worry about how to defend yourselves or what to say.

He will be delivered over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and insulted and spit upon.

Then he sent a third, but they wounded him and threw him out.

But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you. On account of My name they will deliver you to the synagogues and prisons, and they will bring you before kings and governors.

You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you will be put to death.

And you will be hated by everyone because of My name.

Then they seized Jesus, led Him away, and took Him into the house of the high priest. And Peter followed at a distance.

The men who were holding Jesus began to mock Him and beat Him.

And they said many other blasphemous things against Him.

Meanwhile, the chief priests and scribes stood there, vehemently accusing Him.

And even Herod and his soldiers ridiculed and mocked Him. Dressing Him in a fine robe, they sent Him back to Pilate.

Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews began to persecute Him.

Because of this, the Jews tried all the harder to kill Him. Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.

Yet no one would speak publicly about Him for fear of the Jews.

“You have a demon,” the crowd replied. “Who is trying to kill You?”

But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham never did such a thing.

At this, they picked up stones to throw at Him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple area.

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already determined that anyone who confessed Jesus as the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.

Then they heaped insults on him and said, “You are His disciple; we are disciples of Moses.