Matthew 24:9

Persecution Of Disciples Predicted

⁸ All that is but the beginning of the trouble. ⁹ Then men will hand you over to suffer affliction, and they will kill you; you will be hated by all the Gentiles on account of my name. ¹⁰ And many will be repelled then, they will betray one another and hate one another.

Called by My Name

For My Name

Hated by All

John 16:2

They will excommunicate you; indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will imagine he is performing a service to God.

Matthew 23:34

This is why I will send you prophets, wise men, and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, some of whom you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town;

John 15:19-20

If you belonged to the world, the world would love what it owned; it is because you do not belong to the world, because I have chosen you from the world, that the world hates you.

Revelation 2:10

Have no fear of what you are to suffer. The devil indeed is going to put some of you in prison, that you may be tested; you will have a distressful ten days. Be faithful, though you have to die for it, and I will give you the crown of Life.

Matthew 10:17-22

Beware of men, they will hand you over to sanhedrins and scourge you in their synagogues,

Matthew 22:6

while the rest seized his servants and ill-treated them and killed them.

Mark 13:9-13

Look to yourselves. Men will hand you over to Sanhedrins and you will be flogged in synagogues and brought before governors and kings for my sake, to testify to them.

Luke 11:49

This is why the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, some they will kill and some they will persecute';

Luke 21:12

But before all that, men will lay hands on you and persecute you, handing you over to synagogues and prisons; you will be dragged before kings and governors for the sake of my name.

Luke 21:16-17

You will be betrayed by your very parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends, and some of you will be put to death.

Acts 4:2-3

who were annoyed at them teaching the people and proclaiming Jesus as an instance of resurrection from the dead.

Acts 5:40-41

They gave in to him, and after summoning the apostles and giving them a flogging, they released them with instructions that they were not to speak about the name of Jesus.

Acts 7:59

So they stoned Stephen, who called on the Lord, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"

Acts 12:1-5

It was about that time that king Herod laid hands of violence on some members of the church.

Acts 21:31-32

They were attempting to kill him, when word reached the commander of the garrison that the whole of Jerusalem was in confusion.

Acts 22:19-22

'But, Lord,' I said, 'they surely know it was I who imprisoned and flogged those who believed in you throughout the synagogues,

Acts 28:22

We think it only right to let you tell your own story; but as regards this sect, we are well aware that there are objections to it on all hands."

1 Thessalonians 2:14-16

for you have started, my brothers, to copy the churches of God in Christ Jesus throughout Judaea; you have suffered from your compatriots just as they have suffered from the Jews,

1 Peter 4:16

but if a man suffers for being a Christian, he must not be ashamed, he must rather glorify God for that.

Revelation 2:13

I know where you dwell, where Satan sits enthroned, and yet you adhere to my Name, you have not renounced your faith in me even during the days when my witness, my faithful Antipas, was martyred in your midst ??where Satan dwells.

Revelation 6:9-11

And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain for adhering to God's word and to the testimony which they bore;

Revelation 7:14

I said to him, "You know, my lord." So he told me, "These are the people who have come out of the great Distress, who washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.