10 Bible Verses about Martyrdom, Methods Of

and having sent, he beheaded John in the prison,

And Herod having heard, said -- 'He whom I did behead -- John -- this is he; he was raised out of the dead.'

and Herod said, 'John I did behead, but who is this concerning whom I hear such things?' and he was seeking to see him.

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them, and the souls of those who have been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus, and because of the word of God, and who did not bow before the beast, nor his image, and did not receive the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand, and they did live and reign with Christ the thousand years;

and whoso doth not fall down and do obeisance, is cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tried; in the killing of the sword they died; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins -- being destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated,

and having cast him forth outside of the city, they were stoning him -- and the witnesses did put down their garments at the feet of a young man called Saul --

and he killed James, the brother of John, with the sword,

Women received by a rising again their dead, and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, that a better rising again they might receive,