Persecution
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Persecution’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
Showing 49–72 of 364 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Luke 19:14 NT
But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’
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Luke 19:47 NT
He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests, the scribes, and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.
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Luke 20:20 NT
They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
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Luke 22:2-5 NT
The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people. Satan entered into Judas, who was also called Iscariot, who was counted with the twelve. He went away, and talked with the chief priests…
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Luke 22:52 NT
Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come against him, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?
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Luke 22:53 NT
When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”
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The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him. Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, “Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?” They spoke many other things against him, insulting him.
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Luke 23:11 NT
Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.
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Luke 23:23 NT
But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.
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John 5:16 NT
For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.
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John 7:1 NT
After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
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John 7:7 NT
The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
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John 7:19 NT
Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”
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John 7:20 NT
The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?”
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John 7:30 NT
They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
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John 7:32 NT
The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
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John 8:37 NT
I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.
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John 8:40 NT
But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this.
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John 8:48 NT
Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”
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John 8:52 NT
Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’
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John 8:59 NT
Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.
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John 10:20 NT
Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”
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John 10:31 NT
Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.
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John 10:39 NT
They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.