9 Bible Verses about Martyrdom, Methods Of

And he sent and beheaded John in the prison.

But when Herod heard of him, he said: John, whom I beheaded, has risen from the dead.

And Herod said: John I have beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and the power of judging was given to them; and I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God; and of those who had not worshiped the beast, nor his image, and had not received his mark on their forehead, nor on their hand: and they lived and reigned with Christ a thou sand years.

And though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and though I deliver up my body to be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword: they went about in. sheep-skins, in goat-skins, being destitute, afflicted, oppressed with evils,

and drove him out of the city, and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul.

And he slew with the sword James the brother of John.

Women received their dead raised to life again: but others were beat to death, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection;