6 Bible Verses about Persecution Of Christ

and having risen, they put him forth without the city, and brought him unto the brow of the hill on which their city had been built -- to cast him down headlong,

and Herod with his soldiers having set him at nought, and having mocked, having put around him gorgeous apparel, did send him back to Pilate,

and because of this were the Jews persecuting Jesus, and seeking to kill him, because these things he was doing on a sabbath.

And Jesus was walking after these things in Galilee, for he did not wish to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him,

'I have known that ye are seed of Abraham, but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you;

Therefore were they seeking again to seize him, and he went forth out of their hand,