Thematic Bible: Martyrs


Thematic Bible



And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given them: and the souls of them beheaded with an axe for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and who worshipped not the wild beast, nor his image, and took not the stamp upon their foreheads, and upon their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.


And they will conspire against him, and stone him with stone by the commands of the king in the enclosure of the house of Jehovah.


From the blood of Abel even to the blood of Zacharias perishing between the altar and house: yea, I say to you, It shall be required of this generation.


In vain did I strike your sons; they received no instruction: your sword consumed the prophets as a lion destroying.


For they poured out the blood of the holy, and of the prophets, and thou didst give them blood to drink i for they are worthy.

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets, and striking with stones those having been sent to her; how often I wished to gather thy children together, which manner a hen her young brood under the wings, and ye would not!

They were stoned, they were cut by sawing, they were tried, they died by the slaughter of the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being in want, pressed, treated ill;

They also having slain the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and having driven you out; and not pleasing God, and opposite to all men;

And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; truly stripping some, and killing some.