Luke 2:34
but Symeon blessed them, and to his mother Mary he said, "This child is destined for the downfall as well as for the rise of many a one in Israel; destined to be a Sign for man's attack ??35 to bring out the secret aims of many a heart. And your own soul will be pierced by a spear."
1 Corinthians 4:9-13
For it seems to me that God means us apostles to come in at the very end, like the doomed gladiators in the arena! We are made a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men!
Hebrews 2:13-14
and again, 'I will put my trust in him,' and again, 'Here am I and the children God has given me.'
Hebrews 10:33
partly by being held up yourselves to obloquy and anguish, partly by making common cause with those who fared in this way;
Hebrews 12:22
You have come to mount Sion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to myriads of angels in festal gathering,