10 Bible Verses about Martyrdom, Methods Of

He gave the order to behead John in prison.

Herod said: It is John whom I beheaded, raised from the dead.

Herod said: I beheaded John, but who is this, about whom I hear such things? He wanted to see him.

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I also saw the people who were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image. They had not received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands. They lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Whoever does not fall down and worship, will be thrown into the midst of a blazing furnace.

And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

They were stoned, they were sawed in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword; they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented.

They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet. His name was Saul.

He killed James the brother of John with a sword.

Women received their dead by a resurrection, and others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection: