Matthew 24:9

Persecution Of Disciples Predicted

⁸ But all these things are only the beginning of the birth pains." ⁹ "Then they'll hand you over to suffer and will kill you, and you'll be hated by all the nations because of my name. ¹⁰ Then many people will fall away, will betray one another, and will hate one another.

Called by My Name

For My Name

Hated by All

John 16:2

You'll be thrown out of the synagogues. Yes, a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he's serving God.

Matthew 23:34

"That is why I am sending you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will whip in your synagogues and persecute from town to town.

John 15:19-20

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as one of its own. But because you do not belong to the world and I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.

Revelation 2:10

Don't be afraid of what you are going to suffer. Look! The Devil is going to throw some of you into prison so that you may be tested. For ten days you will undergo suffering. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the victor's crown of life.

Matthew 10:17-22

Watch out for people who will hand you over to the local councils and whip you in their synagogues.

Matthew 22:6

The rest grabbed the king's servants, treated them brutally, and then killed them.

Mark 13:9-13

"As for yourselves, be on your guard! People will hand you over to local councils, and you will be beaten in their synagogues. You will stand before governors and kings to testify to them because of me.

Luke 11:49

That is why the Wisdom of God said, "I will send them prophets and apostles. They will kill some of them and persecute others,'

Luke 21:12

"But before all these things take place, people will arrest you and persecute you. They will hand you over to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sake.

Luke 21:16-17

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

Acts 4:2-3

They were greatly disturbed that Peter and John were teaching the people and announcing that Jesus had been resurrected from the dead.

Acts 5:40-41

So they were convinced by him. After calling in the apostles and beating them, they again ordered them to stop speaking in the name of Jesus and let them go.

Acts 7:59

As they continued to stone Stephen, he kept praying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"

Acts 12:1-5

About that time, Herod arrested some people who belonged to the church and mistreated them.

Acts 21:31-32

The crowd was trying to kill Paul when a report reached the tribune of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

Acts 22:19-22

"I said, "Lord, they themselves know that in every synagogue I kept imprisoning and beating those who believe in you.

Acts 28:22

However, we'd like to hear from you what you believe, because people are talking against this sect everywhere."

1 Thessalonians 2:14-16

For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea that are in union with the Messiah Jesus. You suffered the same persecutions from the people of your own country as they did from those Jews

1 Peter 4:16

But if you suffer for being a Christian, do not feel ashamed, but glorify God with that name.

Revelation 2:13

"I know where you live. Satan's throne is there. Yet you hold on to my name and have not denied your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was killed in your presence, where Satan lives.

Revelation 6:9-11

When the lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered because of the word of God and the testimony they had given.

Revelation 7:14

I told him, "Sir, you know."