TOPICAL BIBLE
Persecution
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Luke 22:65They spoke many other things against him, insulting him.Luke 23:11Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.Luke 23:23But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.John 5:16For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.John 7:1After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.John 7:7The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.John 7:19Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”John 7:20The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?”John 7:30They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.John 7:32The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.John 8:37I know that you are Abraham’s seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.John 8:40But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this.John 8:48Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”John 8:52Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’John 8:59Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through their midst, and so passed by.John 9:22His 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.John 9:34They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” They threw him out.John 10:20Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”John 10:31Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.John 10:39They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.John 11:57Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.John 12:10But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,John 12:42Nevertheless 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,John 14:30I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.John 15:18If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.John 15:19If 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.John 15:20Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.John 15:21But all these things will they do to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.John 15:24If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.John 15:25But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’John 16:1“These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble.John 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.John 17:14I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.John 18:22When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, “Do you answer the high priest like that?”John 18:23Jesus answered him, “If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?”John 18:29Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”John 18:30They answered him, “If this man weren’t an evildoer, we wouldn’t have delivered him up to you.”John 19:6When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.”John 19:15They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”John 20:19When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”Acts 2:23him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;Acts 3:13The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.Acts 3:14But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,Acts 3:15and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.Acts 4:3They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.Acts 4:4But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.Acts 4:5It happened in the morning, that their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem.Acts 4:6Annas the high priest was there, with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and as many as were relatives of the high priest.Acts 4:7When they had stood them in the middle of them, they inquired, “By what power, or in what name, have you done this?”Acts 4:8Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,Acts 4:9if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,Acts 4:10be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in him does this man stand here before you whole.Acts 4:11He is ‘the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.’Acts 4:12There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”Acts 4:13Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.Acts 4:14Seeing the man who was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.Acts 4:15But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,Acts 4:16saying, “What shall we do to these men? Because indeed a notable miracle has been done through them, as can be plainly seen by all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we can’t deny it.Acts 4:17But so that this spreads no further among the people, let’s threaten them, that from now on they don’t speak to anyone in this name.”Acts 4:18They called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.