Thematic Bible: Martyrs


Thematic Bible



And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the Word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast nor his image, nor had received his mark on their foreheads, nor in their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.


And they conspired against him and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the court of the house of Jehovah.


from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the temple. Truly I say to you, It shall be required of this generation.


In vain I have stricken your sons; they received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.


since they have poured out the blood of the saints and prophets; and You gave them blood to drink, for they were deserving.

Jerusalem! Jerusalem! the one killing the prophets, and stoning those having been sent to her; how often I desired to gather your children in the way a hen gathers her brood under the wings, and you did not desire it.

They were stoned, they were sawed in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented.

who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, also driving us out and they do not please God and being contrary to all men,

And again he sent another. And they killed him, and many others, beating some and killing some.