6 Bible Verses about Attempts To Kill Christ

Now when they had gone, behold, an angel of the Lord *appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up! Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is going to search for the Child to destroy Him.”

“Get up, take the Child and His mother, and go into the land of Israel; for those who sought the Child’s life are dead.”

But when the vine-growers saw the son, they said among themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.’

Now the chief priests and the whole Council kept trying to obtain false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put Him to death.

But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to put Jesus to death.

Now the chief priests and the whole Council kept trying to obtain testimony against Jesus to put Him to death, and they were not finding any.