Jeremiah 20:2

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Summary

Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.

Smote

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Smote

Blessed are they, who are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for the kingdom of the heavens is theirs.

and the husbandmen taking his servants, beat one, and slew one, and stoned another.

Therefore I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: you will kill and crucify some of them; and will scourge some of them in your synagogues, and will persecute them from city to city;

and they laid hands on them and put them in prison till the morrow; for it was already evening.

and laid hands on the apostles, and placed them in the public prison.

Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? and they slew those proclaiming concerning the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you became:

And the crowd stood up together against them: and the magistrates tearing off their garments, commanded the lictors to beat them with rods.

and others received the trial of scourgings and mockings, and still of bonds and imprisonment:

Fear not those things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you shall have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you a crown of life.

And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the saints, and from the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and seeing her, I was astonished with great astonishment.