Quotes About Suffering

A jar of sour wine was sitting there. So they soaked a sponge in the wine, put it on a stalk of hyssop, and lifted it to His mouth.

So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and those of the other.

Instead, one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out.

And, as another Scripture says: “They will look on the One they have pierced.”

After His suffering, He presented Himself to them with many convincing proofs that He was alive. He appeared to them over a span of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.

But in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer.

and arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.

At this, they yielded to Gamaliel. They called the apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and released them.

The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name.

God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him

Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food.

He exploited our people and oppressed our fathers, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.

The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.

In His humiliation He was deprived of justice. Who can recount His descendants? For His life was removed from the earth.”

I will show him how much he must suffer for My name.”

There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years.

One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted through the Spirit that a great famine would sweep across the whole world. (This happened under Claudius.)

About that time, King Herod reached out to harm some who belonged to the church.

He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.

But when the Gentiles and Jews, together with their rulers, set out to mistreat and stone them,

Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and won over the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, presuming he was dead.

The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered that they be stripped and beaten with rods.

And after striking them with many blows, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to guard them securely.