Matthew 24:9

Persecution Of Disciples Predicted

⁸ All these events are the beginning of birth pains. ⁹ “Then they will hand you over for persecution, and they will kill you. You will be hated by all nations because of My name. ¹⁰ Then many will take offense, betray one another and hate one another.

Called by My Name

For My Name

Hated by All

John 16:2

They will ban you from the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

Matthew 23:34

This is why I am sending you prophets, sages, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and hound from town to town.

John 15:19-20

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.

Revelation 2:10

Don’t be afraid of what you are about to suffer. Look, the Devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will have affliction for 10 days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Matthew 10:17-22

Because people will hand you over to sanhedrins and flog you in their synagogues, beware of them.

Matthew 22:6

And the others seized his slaves, treated them outrageously and killed them.

Mark 13:9-13

“But you, be on your guard! They will hand you over to sanhedrins, and you will be flogged in the synagogues. You will stand before governors and kings because of Me, as a witness to them.

Luke 11:49

Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,’

Luke 21:12

But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you. They will hand you over to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors because of My name.

Luke 21:16-17

You will even be betrayed by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will kill some of you.

Acts 4:2-3

because they were provoked that they were teaching the people and proclaiming the resurrection from the dead, using Jesus as the example.

Acts 5:40-41

After they called in the apostles and had them flogged, they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them.

Acts 7:59

They were stoning Stephen as he called out: “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

Acts 12:1-5

About that time King Herod cruelly attacked some who belonged to the church,

Acts 21:31-32

As they were trying to kill him, word went up to the commander of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in chaos.

Acts 22:19-22

“But I said, ‘Lord, they know that in synagogue after synagogue I had those who believed in You imprisoned and beaten.

Acts 28:22

But we would like to hear from you what you think. For concerning this sect, we are aware that it is spoken against everywhere.”

1 Thessalonians 2:14-16

For you, brothers, became imitators of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, since you have also suffered the same things from people of your own country, just as they did from the Jews

1 Peter 4:16

But if anyone suffers as a “Christian,” he should not be ashamed but should glorify God in having that name.

Revelation 2:13

I know where you live—where Satan’s throne is! And you are holding on to My name and did not deny your faith in Me, even in the days of Antipas, My faithful witness who was killed among you, where Satan lives.

Revelation 6:9-11

When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the people slaughtered because of God’s word and the testimony they had.

Revelation 7:14

I said to him, “Sir, you know.”

Then he told me:

These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation.
They washed their robes and made them white
in the blood of the Lamb.