TOPICAL BIBLE
Persecution
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Luke 22:65And they said many other blasphemous things against Him.Luke 23:11And even Herod and his soldiers ridiculed and mocked Him. Dressing Him in a fine robe, they sent Him back to Pilate.Luke 23:23But they were insistent, demanding with loud voices for Jesus to be crucified. And their clamor prevailed.John 5:16Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews began to persecute Him.John 7:1After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jews there were trying to kill Him.John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.John 7:19Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”John 7:20“You have a demon,” the crowd replied. “Who is trying to kill You?”John 7:30So they tried to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.John 7:32When the Pharisees heard the crowd whispering these things about Jesus, they and the chief priests sent officers to arrest Him.John 8:37I know you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill Me because My word has no place within you.John 8:40But 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.John 8:48The Jews answered Him, “Are we not right to say that You are a Samaritan and You have a demon?”John 8:52“Now we know that You have a demon!” declared the Jews. “Abraham died, and so did the prophets, yet You say that anyone who keeps Your word will never taste death.John 8:59At this, they picked up stones to throw at Him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple area.John 9:22His 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.John 9:34They replied, “You were born in utter sin, and you are instructing us?” And they threw him out.John 10:20Many of them said, “He is demon-possessed and insane. Why would you listen to Him?”John 10:31At this, the Jews again picked up stones to stone Him.John 10:39At this, they tried again to seize Him, but He escaped their grasp.John 11:57But the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where He was must report it, so that they could arrest Him.John 12:10So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus as well,John 12:42Nevertheless, many of the leaders believed in Him. But because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue.John 14:30I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming, and he has no claim on Me.John 15:18If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.John 15:19If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.John 15:20Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.John 15:21But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.John 15:24If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.John 15:25But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’John 16:1“I have told you these things so that you will not fall away.John 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.John 17:14I have given them Your word and the world has hated them. For they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.John 18:22When Jesus had said this, one of the officers standing nearby slapped Him in the face and said, “Is this how You answer the high priest?”John 18:23Jesus replied, “If I said something wrong, testify as to what was wrong. But if I spoke correctly, why did you strike Me?”John 18:29So Pilate went out to them and asked, “What accusation are you bringing against this man?”John 18:30“If He were not a criminal,” they replied, “we would not have handed Him over to you.”John 19:6As soon as the chief priests and officers saw Him, they shouted, “Crucify Him! Crucify Him!” “You take Him and crucify Him,” Pilate replied, “for I find no basis for a charge against Him.”John 19:15At this, they shouted, “Away with Him! Away with Him! Crucify Him!” “Shall I crucify your King?” Pilate asked. “We have no king but Caesar,” replied the chief priests.John 20:19It was the first day of the week, and that very evening, while the disciples were together with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them. “Peace be with you!” He said to them.Acts 2:23He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.Acts 3:13The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus. You handed Him over and rejected Him before Pilate, even though he had decided to release Him.Acts 3:14You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.Acts 3:15You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of this fact.Acts 4:3They seized Peter and John, and because it was evening, they put them in custody until the next day.Acts 4:4But many who heard the message believed, and the number of men grew to about five thousand.Acts 4:5The next day the rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem,Acts 4:6along with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and many others from the high priest’s family.Acts 4:7They had Peter and John brought in and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?”Acts 4:8Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers and elders of the people!Acts 4:9If we are being examined today about a kind service to a man who was lame, to determine how he was healed,Acts 4:10then let this be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.Acts 4:11This Jesus is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’Acts 4:12Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”Acts 4:13When they saw the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they marveled and took note that these men had been with Jesus.Acts 4:14And seeing the man who had been healed standing there with them, they had nothing to say in response.Acts 4:15So they ordered them to leave the Sanhedrin and then conferred together.Acts 4:16“What shall we do with these men?” they asked. “It is clear to everyone living in Jerusalem that a remarkable miracle has occurred through them, and we cannot deny it.Acts 4:17But to keep this message from spreading any further among the people, we must warn them not to speak to anyone in this name.”Acts 4:18Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.