10 Bible Verses about Martyrdom, Methods Of

And he sent and beheaded John in the prison.

But hearing Herod said, It is John, whom I beheaded. He 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 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 whoever does not fall down and worship, he should be thrown into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

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

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.

And throwing him outside the city, they stoned him. And the witnesses laid their clothes down at the feet of a young man named Saul.

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

Women received their dead raised to life again, and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.