15 Bible Verses about Killing Disciples

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.

Everyone who heard him was astonished and said, "This is the man who harassed those who were calling on Jesus' name in Jerusalem, isn't it? Didn't he come here to bring them in chains to the high priests?"

Even when the blood of your witness Stephen was being shed, I was standing there, approving it and guarding the coats of those who were killing him.'

That is what I did in Jerusalem. I received authority from the high priests and locked many of the saints in prison. And when I cast my vote against them, they were put to death.

But the farmers took his servants and beat one, killed another, and attacked another with stones.

Then the man sent another, and that one they killed. So it was with many other servants. Some of these they beat, and others they killed.

Each of them was given a white robe. They were told to rest a little longer until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers was completed, who would be killed as they themselves had been.

You have given them blood to drink because they spilled the blood of saints and prophets. This is what they deserve."

So he sent word and had John beheaded in prison.

So without delay the king sent a soldier and ordered him to bring John's head. The soldier went and beheaded him in prison.

Herod said, "I beheaded John. But who is this man I'm hearing so much about?" So Herod kept trying to see Jesus.

ran him outside of the city, and began to stone him to death. Meanwhile, the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul. As they continued to stone Stephen, he kept praying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!" Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, "Lord, don't hold this sin against them!" After he had said this, he died.

I persecuted this Way, even executing people, and kept tying up both men and women and putting them in prison,

He even had James, the brother of John, killed with a sword.

Now he said this to show by what kind of death he would glorify God. After saying this, Jesus told him, "Keep following me."